Wd element 2 tb...............malfunction

avichandana20000

avichandana20000

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My friend has a WD ELEMENT 2tb which did not show up in his laptop a few days ago. So he asked me to check that. i have

  • 1 Changed the cable
  • 2 plugged it
  • 3 driver installed and showing ready to use.
  • 4 In My computer it is showing :

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  • 5 Device Manager shows

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  • 6 Disk management shows

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    and
  • HDD SENTINEL is showing

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  • HD Tune Pro is showing

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SO hdd is at its EOL. My objective is to recover the data . I have tried Easeus but it requires 105 hrs of at a stretch operations which i cannot do because of power cut problem.

WD data life guard cannot scan and says I/O error.

I even tried to format it but cannot do that because of the same I/O error.

What option do i have to recover the data?

It is just 6 months old, so no doubt i will RMA it, but before that can WD recover the data?
 
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harshilsharma63

harshilsharma63

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I suppose it's a new disk? New hard disks are unformatted so they don;t show up. AS you can see in disk manager that the type of partition is RAW. Simply right click on it and choose 'Format' and the disk will appear.
 
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avichandana20000

avichandana20000

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harshilsharma63 said:
I suppose it's a new disk? New hard disks are unformatted so they don;t show up. AS you can see in disk manager that the type of partition is RAW. Simply right click on it and choose 'Format' and the disk will appear.
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as soon as i have opened Disk management it said the disk is not initialized, so i follow the steps and it shows

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it is not anymore RAW it is unallocated
 
Vyom

Vyom

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No need to do anything to the drive. It doesn't need to be formatted or anything. Just download MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition - Free download and software reviews - CNET Download.com It may take a while to scan, but it sure can recover data from partitions it finds.

Just select "Lost Partition Recovery" and you are set. Yea it did take 6 hrs to scan for data on my 1 TB hdd, so a 2 TB can take 12 hours. But once the initial scan completes scan data is saved. So the next time it wont need to scan again, and you can resume recovery easily.

I used it last weekend to recover data from my 1 TB internet HDD. Not a fantastic last week I had.

PS: TDF attachments won't work. I hope you hosted images on imgur.com or minus.com.
 
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avichandana20000

avichandana20000

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Vyom said:
No need to do anything to the drive. It doesn't need to be formatted or anything. Just download MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition - Free download and software reviews - CNET Download.com It may take a while to scan, but it sure can recover data from partitions it finds.

Just select "Lost Partition Recovery" and you are set. Yea it did take 6 hrs to scan for data on my 1 TB hdd, so a 2 TB can take 12 hours. But once the initial scan completes scan data is saved. So the next time it wont need to scan again, and you can resume recovery easily.

I used it last weekend to recover data from my 1 TB internet HDD. Not a fantastic last week I had.

PS: TDF attachments won't work. I hope you hosted images on imgur.com or minus.com.
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THANKS. Surely i will try this. Does it show up recovered file count right from the beginning or at the end of the process?
 
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Vyom

Vyom

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In the first screenshot you can see it scanning:

*i.imgur.com/mDc4AyK.png

In the 2nd screenshot, scanning is complete:

*i.imgur.com/eZ86lkQ.png

After you click "Show Files" by selecting a partition, it will show the files in folder structure, screenshot of which I didn't take.
 
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avichandana20000

avichandana20000

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i do not how but it suddenly gets detected by windows and i have transfered all data by simply doing copy paste. Now i want to RMA it but before that i want format/zero fill it. But i am unable to do that as it is showing disk is WRITE PROTECTED. So i open CMD in admin mode and run DISKPART.

DISKPART> list disk

DISKPART> select disk

DISKPART> list volume

DISKPART> attr disk clear readonly

got msg : Disk attributes cleared successfully


DISKPART> attr volume clear readonly

Here it fails to perform and says it cannot do the operation because of and I/O error.

DISKPART> detail disk

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Vyom

Vyom

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^^ Bad screenshot.

Did you try Ubuntu live USB? Or use GParted to format it.
 
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