Dear All,
My WD essential 500GB was working fine till last day. It is now suddenly not accessible. The drive physically spins, and it appears in BIOS as unpartitioned 500GB disk. On linux system, the device is recognized by ‘lsusb’ and registered on /dev/sdb and also reported as healthy by GNU Disk Utility program. But it is unable mount and hence invisible.
The drive has important data which I dont want to lose at any cost. I have tried to rescue my data before any write operation (format/ repartition) but still not able to recover.
I have used different tools on Windows (Steller Phoenix, GetdataBack, FinalData, WD Data life gaurd, etc. ) as well as Linux system (SMART Disk Utility, R-Studio, ddrescue testdisk, fdisk, fsck). All tools show Read/write error messages. The disk seems to be write-protected all around while trying to repartition via fdisk etc. I am using this disk only as portable secondary data back drive without any firmware password.
Some results are shown in following images. Please help me.
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