[SOLVED] Drive showing as Unallocated

May 11, 2021
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Hello,
I have a 2TB WD Green internal hard drive for PC. All of a sudden, when I boot up the PC in the morning, there was no partition in the windows explorer. I checked in the storage in Device manager and found that the disk was showing as Unallocated space - not initialized. When I tried to initialize it, it gave me an error of bad data redundancy. Tried with all the partition recovery and data recovery softwares, no luck!
I have also tried it by running it through external USB to SATA casing (dont know whats it called). When I switch on the power, the drive spins for a while and then stops spinning and then gets detected in Storage section as unallocated.
Apart from giving it to a professional, is there anything else I could do? Please help!
P.S. The drive in the BIOS is detected as Mass storage.
 
Solution
If CrystalDiskInfo is unable to retrieve a SMART report, then this would point to an internal fault (heads/media/firmware). If the drive spins down, then this would suggest a head or media problem.