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WD External Drives External Drives for PC
1

Hi,

My WD won’t work.

Here’s the test result.

Test Option: QUICK TEST
Model Number: WD
Unit Serial Number:  
Firmware Number: 1.75
Capacity: 0.00 GB
SMART Status: Not Available
Test Result: PASS
Test Time: 11:57:52, October 14, 2012
Test Option: WRITE ZEROS
Model Number: WD
Unit Serial Number:  
Firmware Number: 1.75
Capacity: 0.00 GB
SMART Status: Not Available
Test Result: FAIL
Test Error Code: 09-Sector #0-1::Write Zeros error!
Test Time: 11:58:04, October 14, 2012
Test Option: WRITE ZEROS
Model Number: WD
Unit Serial Number:  
Firmware Number: 1.75
Capacity: 0.00 GB
SMART Status: Not Available
Test Result: COMPLETE
Test Time: 11:58:15, October 14, 2012
Test Option: QUICK TEST
Model Number: WD
Unit Serial Number:  
Firmware Number: 1.75
Capacity: 0.00 GB
SMART Status: Not Available
Test Result: PASS
Test Time: 11:59:38, October 14, 2012
Test Option: EXTENDED TEST
Model Number: WD
Unit Serial Number:  
Firmware Number: 1.75
Capacity: 0.00 GB
SMART Status: Not Available
Test Result: FAIL
Test Error Code: 08-Error was detected while repairing bad sectors.
Test Time: 11:59:52, October 14, 2012
Test Option: EXTENDED TEST
Model Number: WD
Unit Serial Number:  
Firmware Number: 1.75
Capacity: 0.00 GB
SMART Status: Not Available
Test Result: FAIL
Test Error Code: 08-Error was detected while repairing bad sectors.
Test Time: 12:01:10, October 14, 2012
Test Option: WRITE ZEROS
Model Number: WD
Unit Serial Number:  
Firmware Number: 1.75
Capacity: 0.00 GB
SMART Status: Not Available
Test Result: COMPLETE
Test Time: 12:02:13, October 14, 2012
Test Option: WRITE ZEROS
Model Number: WD
Unit Serial Number:  
Firmware Number: 1.75
Capacity: 0.00 GB
SMART Status: Not Available
Test Result: FAIL
Test Error Code: 09-Sector #0-1::Write Zeros error!
Test Time: 12:02:54, October 14, 2012
2

Does your drive spin up and idle normally? Any abnormal sounds?

3

I can hear it spinning, it doesn’t go idle though.

Abnormal sounds, I don’t think so, I hear the old same sound of a spinning drive.

"I would like to thank you guys in advance!

I have a 320GB  External WD HD, I’m not sure what the problem is, but once upon a time, I pasted lots of files that it almost reached it’s maximum allocated size, then the next time I plugged it in, it won’t recognize it anymore.

I can’t see it in “Computer/My Computer”
I can’t see it in " Disk Management"
I can’t see it in “CMD/DiskPart”
I dled and tried “KillDisk” still a bummer.

Although I can see it in “Device Manager”
And I can safely remove it from the task bar.

I also tried it on a Mac, I can see and open the  USB, I can copy and everything, until I tried to “Erase” the drive and reformat it into “MS-DOS Fat32”, it gave me an error wherein I can’t reformat it, it was something about a Input Output error, and now I don’t know what to do.

Any clue on how I can reformat it?"