Comments on: I Have Usb 2.0 Harddisk Wd Passport. I Unplugged It Directly Without Safely Removing. Not Working Now,help Pls

By: CJC

CJC — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:50:27 +0000

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.

By: Incredible Videos

Incredible Videos — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:50:25 +0000

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….

By: Colanth

Colanth — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:50:24 +0000

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).

By: Lab Tech Mike

Lab Tech Mike — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:50:24 +0000

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.