So I have been given this old WD external HDD which uses a power brick and the old mini USB like you'd find on a ps3 controller. If I can't get it to work in a stable condition again I at least want to get the files if not some files copied elsewhere from it. So I plug in the power source, light dim and then connect the USB to my laptop here and the light flashes.
If I'm lucky it will appear in the file explorer and in the device manager, double click on it in the file explorer and I get the blue circle loading cursor shortly followed by a window saying 'D:\ is not accessible The parameter is incorrect' then on the device manager it will change to 'Unknown USB Device'.
At this point now it appear every time in the file explorer after reconnecting the USB and so I tried using a tool called 'MiniTool Power Data Recovery' where it tries to scan attached devices and it gets stuck on percentage like 1 or 64% which I suspect it caused by the external as the loading window just closes to show my OS SSD, the External is not there, it disappears from my File Explorer and changes to 'Unknown USB Device' in the Device Manager as well as an Unrecognised USB Device pop up from windows in the bottom right corner.
Has it got too many bad sectors and the whole things screwed or is there a way I can at least transfer the data off of it without having to send it off to some data recovery service?
If I'm lucky it will appear in the file explorer and in the device manager, double click on it in the file explorer and I get the blue circle loading cursor shortly followed by a window saying 'D:\ is not accessible The parameter is incorrect' then on the device manager it will change to 'Unknown USB Device'.
At this point now it appear every time in the file explorer after reconnecting the USB and so I tried using a tool called 'MiniTool Power Data Recovery' where it tries to scan attached devices and it gets stuck on percentage like 1 or 64% which I suspect it caused by the external as the loading window just closes to show my OS SSD, the External is not there, it disappears from my File Explorer and changes to 'Unknown USB Device' in the Device Manager as well as an Unrecognised USB Device pop up from windows in the bottom right corner.
Has it got too many bad sectors and the whole things screwed or is there a way I can at least transfer the data off of it without having to send it off to some data recovery service?