External Hard Drive Weird Behavior

[TigerBoy]

Hello,

 

I am using a Western Digital My Book 2TB external drive,

 

Currently I cannot read my drive properly while it is connected through my Windows 7 x64 PC and as well as another PC within the house of similar operating system. The drive was working before on the same computer until it was connected to another PC (yes bad move.)

 

I ddin't know what happened with the drive but this is the current behavior of it,

 

1. Connects the Drive via USB

2. Drive does not show up on screen or just shows up as "Local Disk" with no space specified

3. Drive has been connected via usb prompt on menu bar (Eject does not work)

4. When drive has been disconnected, the drive shows the space as well as the drive name for a few seconds.

 

 

Here is a link of the video of the behavior (forgive my voice, this is just a sad thing to happen to me since I'm getting nervous with the probablility loss of my data )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6DiINQVh_E&feature=youtu.be

 

Here are the things I tried which did not work:

1. Ran in Safe Mode (same case as above)

2. Try in other machines and other ports (around 3 ports for 3 machines and i gave up)

3. Issued the command in cmd wmic logicaldisk get name (Showed the drive is connected)

 

 

I hope I did not miss any information since I only included the relevant information in my opinion.

 

Thank you and good day

[Maxibonbits]

Is the drive not being assigned a drive path (e.g. drive F: or G:)

 

Firs plug the drive in. Now check to see if it is listed in Device Manager. (Tap the windows key and type "partition". You should get a result like :Create and format hard disk partitions" Open that.

 

If it is, than windows is detecting the drive. Right click the drive and choose "Change Drive letter and path". Assign it a drive letter.

 

Was this the issue?

[Tech_Dreamer]

Yeah! i've had this with some of the hard drives my friend had, we could,t get it to come up on windows explorer, tried many other PC's same effect ,The hard drive was spinning without any problem tho, tried to assign a new path but that didn't work as well.

 

finaly had to recover & backup the whole drive using a HDD recover software because that was the only thing that was able to read any data of it anyways.

 

 

The drive was then formated & had to do fresh file dump.

[TigerBoy]

Yeah! i've had this with some of the hard drives my friend had, we could,t get it to come up on windows explorer, tried many other PC's same effect ,The hard drive was spinning without any problem tho, tried to assign a new path but that didn't work as well.

 

finaly had to recover & backup the whole drive using a HDD recover software because that was the only thing that was able to read any data of it anyways.

 

 

The drive was then formated & had to do fresh file dump.

 

may I ask what was the utility that you used for recovery and backup so I can just copy and transfer the data?

 

I feel this is the case I needed to do, but I felt there is hope since I can still see it in windows explorer after it gets disconnected, I feel that there is a little "bugger" that forces it to go in a load loop

 

 

 

Is the drive not being assigned a drive path (e.g. drive F: or G:)

 

Firs plug the drive in. Now check to see if it is listed in Device Manager. (Tap the windows key and type "partition". You should get a result like :Create and format hard disk partitions" Open that.

 

If it is, than windows is detecting the drive. Right click the drive and choose "Change Drive letter and path". Assign it a drive letter.

 

Was this the issue?

 

Hello, it could not be read sadly and it takes a really long time to load the disk management utility for since it could not load the contents of the drive. Thank you for the suggestion

[Tech_Dreamer]

may I ask what was the utility that you used?

 

I feel this is the case I needed to do, but I felt there is hope since I can still see it in windows explorer after it gets disconnected, I feel that there is a little "bugger" that forces it to go in a load loop

 

 

i think it was Easus partition recovery tool , first 100 mb free rest you have to pay for it *cough* :mellow: ,

get the one with windows integration , not the boot up & recovery software, that's a shitty stuff from their own bundle. if you need a walk through post back your progress . but i guess you'll be good from here on.

 

 

 

  ninja never leaves his enemies alive & bleeding

[TigerBoy]

Alright i guess I have to pay for it *cough* 

 

man, the weather is really bad lately, i'll post more updates once I get the drives that I can copy to

 

 

Thank you brother =)

[TigerBoy]

The solution does not work since it needs the drive to be read by the system, It does not see the drive until it is disconnected