I have a WD My Passport 1 TB HD which I purchased around an year ago. Two days ago, I copied a few files from my laptop (running Win 8.1) to this hard disk and then ejected it safely. I gave it a friend of mine and he returned it back saying it is not working. When I plug it in my laptop, it gets detected but the drive does not appear. I opened Disk Management, but it gave an error that the disk must be initialized first. When I click on OK, it gives an error The request failed due to a fatal device hardware error.. The status of this disk is Not Initialized and Unallocated.
I tried to recover the partition usin MiniTool Partition. But it ran for hours and didn't fix anything. Even tried Easeus Partition Manager, but still nothing. So today I ran Ubuntu and tried GParted, but it does not even detect this disk.
What could be wrong ? What can I do to troubleshoot this ?
The data inside is not too important but I'd really like to try more methods to fix this before getting a replacement (still under warranty).
Thanks for all your help in advance!
I tried to recover the partition usin MiniTool Partition. But it ran for hours and didn't fix anything. Even tried Easeus Partition Manager, but still nothing. So today I ran Ubuntu and tried GParted, but it does not even detect this disk.
What could be wrong ? What can I do to troubleshoot this ?
The data inside is not too important but I'd really like to try more methods to fix this before getting a replacement (still under warranty).
Thanks for all your help in advance!