I Have Usb 2.0 Harddisk Wd Passport. I Unplugged It Directly Without Safely Removing. Not Working Now,help Pls
Posted by benny in FreeWare on July 2nd, 2009 | 4 responses
I unplugged the disk without applying safely remove hardware option of windows. Now the disk is not recognized when it is connected. Is there any way to recover that data. Since it doesnt appear as a drive letter on my computer, ordinary recovery softwares wont do any help. I appreciate any help. TY.
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First step – listen to the drive as you plug it in. Does it click a lot, but not spin (you’ll hear a hum if it’s spinning)? If it’s not spinning, and you don’t have a warranty, it’s now a plastic box.
If it spins, download a Linux Live CD image, burn it to a CD and boot with the CD (it doesn’t matter which distro of Linux you use – Puppy is small and boots fast). Go to http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/... and you’ll learn how to recover the drive with the dd command. (I know the drive has Windows files on it – dd doesn’t care, it copies bytes, not files.)
If dd has a problem with the drive (bad blocks), you can download ddrescue from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ddrescue/ It will (if you give it enough time, rescue all the readable data on a drive).
You could take it to a recovery place, but that will be expensive. Is there a reset button on the drive? Also I would try to stay away from Western Digital as there drives are junk.
If it tells that the device is not recognised, dont worry its some problem with the usb drive… try to put it in another port, i usually experience this problem with my pen drive.. i hope this helps you….
Interesting – I have the WD hard drive and never had that happen. I know this may be a dumb question, but I’ll ask it anyway: have you tried to restart your computer and then plug it in? If so, try giving WD a call and/or google your problem – see what you can find.
Like I said, I have one and never had that issue happen.