My WD Caviar Green SATA HDD cannot be detected

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obhasha07

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Hello Guys,

I have a WD 2TB Caviar Green SATA HDD. I used it as an external hard drive formatted to FAT32. The main purpose was to store my PS3 games. It worked fine and all of a sudden my PS3 stopped detecting it.

I tried connecting it to my pc and the same result. I took it off from the enclosure and plugged it directly to my PC and used the BIOS setup. The BIOS setup detects my HDD but it says it's 0.0MB!!!

Is my HDD dead? Is it beyond repair?
 
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obhasha07

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Thanks for the reply,

The thing is windows is not picking up the HDD at all. I can only see it's existence via BIOS setup. When I run the diagnostics tool it doesn't pick up my WD HDD at all. Any other solutions?
 
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Windsun33

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I had a similar problem with a WD 2TB just a couple days ago. I never figured out what was causing it, but what fixed it was to enter Setup, make no changes, but save the setup (F10 in my case). Why this would fix it I have no idea, unless it had somehow convinced itself that the drive did not actually exist, even though it showed up in Setup. Still not sure if this is a WD, Windows 8, or ROM problem.
 
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