When i was using test disk it asked me to choose which partition table i wanted to use. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. A few days ago i couldnt access this external hard dri. All was well until yesterday when it decided to just freeze up as i tried to access it.
I purchased this after getting into digital photography and, unfortunately, after losing a lot of data on a portable hd which i dropped. Im trying to recover a 2tb wd my book drive that keeps asking me to. Tried different cables and direct connection to pc and mac all failed. I know that my wd hard drive used to be mac os extended journaled, and i connected it to windows 7 via bootcamp yesterday and i guess thats when. Hi there i am having issues with my external hard drive wd my book. The next time its best to shutdown the computer so it forces the saving of the files. Like the case above, the issue disk unknown not initialized happens not only on removable hard drives but also on internal or external hard drives from major manufacturers like western digital, samsung, etc in windows 1087. Translations of this testdisk manual to other languages are welcome. Steps to recover lost or deleted files from wd my passport. If its a smaller portable drive, dont bother opening it, there is no sata port and the usb is built right onto the drive. Apr 25, 2014 wd my passport switched from ntfs to raw and notaccessible posted in external hardware.
Recover my book duo 1st gen after resetting the raid 1. Can you please help me, i dont want to lose my data, it contains all my pictures. My guess is that the hdd is working, but it is encrypted never set a password. Oct 15, 2015 after testdisk analyze taking 72 hours, it was detected as model number. Kept it out of the way and used it to throw my gigantic home movies and such on. Oct 15, 2015 hi, just a simple question i also tried asking in testdisk forum, no reply for now. Internal drive 2 120gb wd ssd internal drive 3 7tb wd mybook external. Buy wd my book 1tb external hard drive storage usb 3. Oct 21, 20 among all the connected, featurerich external hard drives, some folks just want to back up all of their stuff. As to fixing this youll need to get a file recover app to hopefully knit back together the directory services which are corrupted on the disk. Need help with a wd my book external drive adventure rider. Teskdisk, but after analysis when i click show list files, testdisk shown. I have tried plugging in the harddrive to the hard drive docking station attached to my macbook as i had formatted the mybook to work with my macbook.
I have a my book duo 16tb that was configured raid 1 and contains about 6tb of data mostly photographs. My fairly new wd my book 4tb decided to just troll me and denied me access to 900gb worth of multimedia files. The ports of my western digital mybook has broken off and have removed the hard drive from the enclosure in attempted to plug the drive into a hard drive docking station. My 2tb extended wd mybook harddisk suddenly became raw.
He has also contributed to the oreilly book linux system administration. Testdisk does not list mybook in the drives list nor does chkdsk command. Dec 28, 2012 hey all, hope you had a good christmas. Data recovery with testdisk testdisk is a powerful free data recovery software which was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and. I and my friend just copied data from and old xp and shutting down the drive after it with the button, which was on it. After setting up a preinstalled machine with windows 10, the problems arising. Hi all, a week ago my my book live is stuck on blue light and the led at the ethernet port does not light up. But after that i cant read my hard disk wd in my computer. A computer repair company in town has said the drive is corrupt. Ik heb testdisk windows 64bit geinstalleerd op mijn computer. Ive migrated my friends wd mybook 2tb out of its enclosure into his pc as an internal sata drive and its data is now inacessable. I used the wd drive utilities to set the raid conf.
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This is my second my book my first one is a 1 tb yes that old. But, nothing ive tried has been working for my situation. Wd external hd mbr, detection problems tech support guy. It started a few days ago when suddenly the drives werent online after i didnt access any files from it for a few hours. After reading this tutorial, you should be ready to recover your own data. Western digital my book opening the case removing the drive i recently needed to removed the drive from a western digital my book external usbesata drive enclosure. I bought a new external 4tb wd my book drive to backup the current 4tb wd my cloud of course i have an obsession about the drive sleep, and since i couldnt manage to make my book sleep, i decided to edit some system files in hope it would allow it to sleep normally like my cloud.
I have a big problem here, i have used my hard disk for 9month, yesterday when i watched movie on the half way, my hard disk suddenly disfuntion, and i thought my laptop problem due to always lagging so i restart my computer. Recover data from broken western digital mybook spiceworks. Why is my wd my book 3tb hard drive not showing up. Check out wd my book 1tb external hard drive storage usb 3. External hard drives free delivery possible on eligible purchases. Liberate your western digital 8tb drive from its mybook.
Raw formatted my external ok so i recently accidently made my external usb drive into a raw, i was wondering if i could some how get it back, i think it still has the files on it, i got it so windows finally recognizes it but all it wants to do is format it. Western digital data recovery software to recover deleted. These are also tools reported by users as helpful see comments. List of all wd firmware and software available for download. Wd external hard disk 1tb suddenly unallocated and not. Testdisk didnt ask me to search for partition under vista or later, so i. The only thing that shows up is a virtual drive with some utility programs. The windows 10 didnt recognized the wd drive normally, nor with. I have a 2tb western digital my book essential external hard drive usb 2. It is just over 1 year old, out of a service plan and my computer does not recognize it.
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May 08, 2012 my external hdd is western digital my passport. Wd my book not initialized unallocated windows 7 help forums. Theres only very few models of my book essential without encryption. Western digital hard disk wd sata hddssdsshd are often used in windows pc desktop, laptop, macbook, xbox, etc. I checked the wd webpage on their mybook external harddrives.
Wd my cloud storage devices are a great way for users to store and access data from any device on their local network via wifi or direct internet connection. Wd my passport switched from ntfs to raw and notaccessible. Jun 09, 2014 i have a big problem here, i have used my hard disk for 9month, yesterday when i watched movie on the half way, my hard disk suddenly disfuntion, and i thought my laptop problem due to always lagging so i restart my computer. My friends my book essential maybe corrupted or going down sn. But after that i cant read my hard disk wdin my computer. After putting the drive into my desktop pc various drives appeared automatically, but dont click on any of them as windows would very much like to reformat them. Regain a lost drive using test disk an illustrated guide. If you try them yourself, it might cause damage or irreparable loss. It appears as a raw file system in disk management and i have run testdisk to see what i could gather. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, testdisk can be used to collect detailed information about a nonbooting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis.
This recovery example guides you through testdisk step by step to recover a missing partition and repair a corrupted one. When i choosed intel intelpc partition on the partition table list and start to analyse, its shown. Now you can install fresh mbwe firmware following how to fix bricked wd my book world edition white light or install brand new disk. I have a wd my book essential 2t i got in oct of last year, yes the warranty is good but if anyone has dealt with wd they. Preceeding that, for around 2 weeks, the drive randomly stops working, and i had to power offon for it to be accessible. A series of gigabit nas desktop drives of 1tb, 2tb, and 3tb varieties, made by wd in 2010. Recovering damaged external hard disk by installing internally. Western digital data recovery software to recover deleted files from wd hard driveexternal removable hard diskssdsshdusb drivehdd.
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I recently bought a 2tb wd my book essentials external hard drive a few months ago in september last year. I pulled out a hdd from the my book live western digital nas because it doesnt connect anymore. Unfortunately, this wasnt an obvious process and this excellent article by scott cramer didnt apply to the newer version 1 tb drive enclosure i have. I recently needed to removed the drive from a western digital my book external usbesata drive enclosure. Like the earlier question i have a 1tb western digital my book hard drive and when i plug it in to the usb port the computer detects and the instillation wizard pops up saying that it has been successfully installed but i cannot find my hard drive. Wd my book external hard drive stoped working external. Western digital my book installation techspot forums. How to recover lost data using testdisk this free opensource tool can save a partition thats been overwritten and recover lost files. I hooked my new wd my book pro up to my pc, but i cant get it to show up anywhere that i can use it. Ive used testdisk to recover data, but the files that were recovered seem random. The equivalent specd wd red 8tb nas hard disk drive 5400 rpm class sata 6 gbs 128mb cache 3.
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I bought another new my book duo 16tb and plugged it into my system windows 7. Hi, i recently tried to copy some data from my laptop to my wd my book external hard drive not brand new, i already had some files in it, but i accidentaly disconnected the usb cable while it was still transfering. Last night, my so was saving a file to her 1tb wd mybook 1140 external. I have pulled the drive out and am using the usb adapter from a wd mybook 3tb to attempt to read the drive.