WD My Passport not working anymore after partitioning

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Hi

My WD Passport external harddrive worked more then 2 years like a charm.

I decided yesterday to make two partitions so I can use one for Time Machine backups.

After I made the two partitions, Time Machine was not able to use the partition. 

So I used Disk Utility and tried to repair the disk. 

But Disk Utility failed to unmount the disk. So I tried to delete the partiitions again 

and reformat the whole disk. But also this didn’t work. So I tried to unmount the disks within Finder and 

after some while it said, “was not able to eject disk … would you like to force eject?”

I sayd yes and the disk does not mount anymore since. Now the disk makes about 4 clicking noises when 

I connect it to my mac but doesn’t mount. Tried also with a windows machine, same there.

Did I just destroy my hard drive with Disk Utility from Apple ?

Is this even possible ?

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Chances are the partition got really messed up when you ejected it

go to disk utility and see if you can repair the partition

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Unfortunately the disk does not show in Disk Utility anymore.

When I start my macbook with “alt/option” pressed, the disk shows up 

in the boot menu as windows disk. When I boot this disk, it says “no operation system found”

somebody has the same experience ?

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See if its possible to update the firmware or try formatting on a different computer