wd5000aajs 500gb external fried?

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Hi,

I had this WD as an external HDD.  I had to reformat my internal HDD  and reinstall windows and forgot to turn off my external HDD.  I have now conected this HDD to a docking port.  It shows in computer management as disc 5 unknown and i cannot initialize the disc and get a data error (cyclic redundancy check).  In device manager it shows as usb mass storage device in both disk drives and usb controllers.  It says the device is operating correctley.  I have run the WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostics tool and it show the HDD as having 0gb but it passes all the test, which are over in a nano second.  I have also used testdisk-6.14-wp but keep getting read errors.  There is no important data on the disc but i would like to recover the disc if possible to use as backup.  Fried or Alive?

TIA

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Hello,

Try writing zeroes to the drive with the WD DLG tool.

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Tried writing zeros to the drive it completed immediatley still showing 0gb on disc.  In testdisk it is picking up117gb approx but all sectors have read errors. 

Any other ideas?

TIA