Hi fellow members,
I am in desperate need of advice. It's regarding my External HDD.
I have a Western Digital My Passport 1 TB External Hard Drive.
It was working perfectly till my friend took it from me and he returned with the HDD being dead. Dead in the sense that nothing was being shown in My Computer, Nothing in Disk Management.
One thing that I'd like to mention is that before my friend took the HDD, it accidentally got dropped from my cupboard, but it was working flawlessly afterwards and transfer of data was as always it had been.
I came to the conclusions that my friend's PC had some kind of notorious virus. Hence HDD infected(?)
I resolved to revive the HDD, as I knew it was being detected. The small LED light lit up whenever I plugged it into the PC and the computer would make a USB connection sound too. So it was pretty much alive. Plus DISKPART listed it as Disk 1 but 0KB free 0KB used space.
Next, after many attempts to format the HDD somehow, I read about this HDD Regenerator v 1.71 software by Dimitriy Primochenko. It also detected the HDD by its name. I did the following:
1. Scan & Repair the HDD
A Message popped up saying "the MBR of the HDD is corrupted". Anyway after sometime, I cancelled it as it was getting protracted. To my surprise, the HDD appeared in My Computer and Disk Management.
In Disk Management however, I was not able to "Initialize" the HDD as it was giving two options of MBR and GPT, selecting either one would result in an error.
2. Regeneration of HDD
I started this process then, And I've got to admit my eyes popped out when I realized the time it would take to ZEROIZE all of the HDD. I cancelled it too after sometime.
Anyway, after these processes, I was able to format the HDD into NTFS and FAT32 as well but it took long time.
Data Transfer is non-existent now. But I can go into the Root of the Drive.
I used another Cable too. The process of Formatting/Regeneration was improved, yet no impact on data transfer.
The HDD has become useless for now and that is why I seek the community's help in this regard.
I hope to get some positive answers.
Thanks
I am in desperate need of advice. It's regarding my External HDD.
I have a Western Digital My Passport 1 TB External Hard Drive.
It was working perfectly till my friend took it from me and he returned with the HDD being dead. Dead in the sense that nothing was being shown in My Computer, Nothing in Disk Management.
One thing that I'd like to mention is that before my friend took the HDD, it accidentally got dropped from my cupboard, but it was working flawlessly afterwards and transfer of data was as always it had been.
I came to the conclusions that my friend's PC had some kind of notorious virus. Hence HDD infected(?)
I resolved to revive the HDD, as I knew it was being detected. The small LED light lit up whenever I plugged it into the PC and the computer would make a USB connection sound too. So it was pretty much alive. Plus DISKPART listed it as Disk 1 but 0KB free 0KB used space.
Next, after many attempts to format the HDD somehow, I read about this HDD Regenerator v 1.71 software by Dimitriy Primochenko. It also detected the HDD by its name. I did the following:
1. Scan & Repair the HDD
A Message popped up saying "the MBR of the HDD is corrupted". Anyway after sometime, I cancelled it as it was getting protracted. To my surprise, the HDD appeared in My Computer and Disk Management.
In Disk Management however, I was not able to "Initialize" the HDD as it was giving two options of MBR and GPT, selecting either one would result in an error.
2. Regeneration of HDD
I started this process then, And I've got to admit my eyes popped out when I realized the time it would take to ZEROIZE all of the HDD. I cancelled it too after sometime.
Anyway, after these processes, I was able to format the HDD into NTFS and FAT32 as well but it took long time.
Data Transfer is non-existent now. But I can go into the Root of the Drive.
I used another Cable too. The process of Formatting/Regeneration was improved, yet no impact on data transfer.
The HDD has become useless for now and that is why I seek the community's help in this regard.
I hope to get some positive answers.
Thanks
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Pro x64
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Acer Aspire 5738G
- CPU
- Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo T6600 @ 2.2 GHz
- Motherboard
- Intel
- Memory
- 4 GB DDR2
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATi Radeon HD 4570
- Browser
- Firefox/Chrome
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender