Hi,
I had a WD 3TB My Book Essentials start acting squirrely on me- I bought a replacement drive to back it up with, but the thing died the day the replacement drive got here so I didn't get a chance to recover any of the data. I'm pretty sure the thing is toast, but I'd love any suggestions on other stuff to try- it'd be nice to have the stuff that's on there, but not $1K or more professional data recovery service nice. I've tried various things after surfing these boards the past few days and this is where things currently stand:
-No click of death or other funny sounds. I cracked the enclosure after it died, and while I'm not an expert there're no obvious physical issues with the PCB (and I tried a PCB swap with the same revision PCB, that didn't fix it).
-I can see it in Device manager, Disk Management, and WD Smartware- Device Manager says it's fine but has a size of 0, Disk Management can tell it's there but wants to initialize it (and I haven't, since recovery is what I'm aiming for), and Smartware sees it and gives me the serial number but says there's "no writable partition found".
-Data LIfeguard sees it but says it has a size of 0- when I try to run the quick or extended tests they "pass" but with a size of 0 and after only running a fraction of a second. DMDE can see it but says "invalid parameters" when I try to open it. CrystalDiskInfo and GetDataBack can't see the drive at all, and Mini Tool Power Data recovery just keeps crashing anytime I ask it to scan my system. HDSentinel sees that it exists but has no info on it and won't let me do a surface scan.
Any suggestions of other things to try, or have I basically reached the end of the line? Thanks!
I had a WD 3TB My Book Essentials start acting squirrely on me- I bought a replacement drive to back it up with, but the thing died the day the replacement drive got here so I didn't get a chance to recover any of the data. I'm pretty sure the thing is toast, but I'd love any suggestions on other stuff to try- it'd be nice to have the stuff that's on there, but not $1K or more professional data recovery service nice. I've tried various things after surfing these boards the past few days and this is where things currently stand:
-No click of death or other funny sounds. I cracked the enclosure after it died, and while I'm not an expert there're no obvious physical issues with the PCB (and I tried a PCB swap with the same revision PCB, that didn't fix it).
-I can see it in Device manager, Disk Management, and WD Smartware- Device Manager says it's fine but has a size of 0, Disk Management can tell it's there but wants to initialize it (and I haven't, since recovery is what I'm aiming for), and Smartware sees it and gives me the serial number but says there's "no writable partition found".
-Data LIfeguard sees it but says it has a size of 0- when I try to run the quick or extended tests they "pass" but with a size of 0 and after only running a fraction of a second. DMDE can see it but says "invalid parameters" when I try to open it. CrystalDiskInfo and GetDataBack can't see the drive at all, and Mini Tool Power Data recovery just keeps crashing anytime I ask it to scan my system. HDSentinel sees that it exists but has no info on it and won't let me do a surface scan.
Any suggestions of other things to try, or have I basically reached the end of the line? Thanks!
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