MyBook broken?

WD External Drives External Drives for PC
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Hi,

I have an old external HDD from WD, i think it is a My Book, since it looks like a book, but has vertical light line on the front.

A while back, it stopped working, probably because it fell over (from normal position to his side). I figured it had something to do with the casing, or the usb port. Yesterday I thought i could fix it by removing it from the case and putting it an SATA connection in my desktop (i founded out i had another sata connector hooked up and ready to go) However, this still doesn’t fix it.

Now it says in device control there is an “ATA Device”, in the start-up it pauses on port-05 (i think that is where the HDD is), but eventually says port-05: No Device, and with the WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows, it does show another HDD, but with a capacity of 0 M. TestDisk doesn’t show either of my HDD’s.

It’s an WD10EAVS and my primary HDD is an WD500AACS. I run on WIndows 7 32-bit.

If you need more info, I’ll be glad to give it.

Thanks in advance

P.S - Data on the drive (if there was any) is not important, so data loss is no problem. Getting the drive to work again is of more importances

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Apparently there is phisical damage in the drive, as a last resort please try write zeros on the drive and if you are unable to perform this action unfortunately the drive is irrecoverable.

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I already did that, was done immediatly because it sees 0 MB capacity. But he does it though. Atleast yesterday, today it won’t show up at all…

It didn’t drop really hard or something…

Is there a way to physically confirm if the drive is damaged? Warranty has already passed.