am using windows 7, and my WD elements SE 55 g stopped showing on explorer. I tried to formated by going to disk management its shows its unallocated and not initialized. I tried to initialize it , I get the error " the media is write protected". I can’t Formated. what should I do?
Try something simple for a start. Go into the device manager and delete the driver. Remove the drive properly USB and power reboot the pc when it has settled down try hooking the drive backup.Sometimes this helps.
Running out of things to try. Did you install the WD drive manager? If so disable it so it doesn’t run at startup and reboot and see if that makes a difference.