Thanks… I’ve tried all the above. Every inspection program sees my drive as only 0mb and cannot do anything about it.
Still What I am looking for is a way to update the firmware without using the firmware updater program that crashes every time (Will not start the process). How can I do it manually since automatic is not working…
My only other idea is to buy new (on drive) circuit boards in case that is the issue. There are 2 circuit boards on the drive… One on the drive (HD Controller) , One plugs into IDE (USB 3.0 Controller). How can I verify these are good. The WD diag software thinks its fine.
One other thing I tried which may provide some insight…? I have a powered dock to connect a IDE drive to USB 2.0 cable. After I connected it, I tried plugging into my systems but neither (Windows 7/8) would even recognize it. I had to re-connect its USB 3.0 circuit card to allow it to even register again.
