Question My WD passport doesn’t responding, it detects in file explorer but not accessible.

Jun 19, 2019
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Hello Guys, I need your help. It has been 8 months, I brought a WD passport. I stored a quite of data backup in it. 2 days ago, I sensed buffering problem at that time I was watching a video that what was inside of it. Instantly, I safely copied some data from WD. I unplugged it then reconnect and then realized that I was a fool. I have been trying in everyway to open it, but windows file explorer did respond when it's connected, cannot see a thing from disk management. My valuable memories still inside of it. Try to check the problem through Data Lifeguard Diagnostic but that program still "Not responding" until I unplugged that damn WD drive from USB port. Also connecting the HDD and trying to restart the computer twice, computer didn’t restart as long as it's connected. I also checked in device manager from USB Root or the other things described in Google ..... all goes failed. No third-party partition manager software opens as long as this damn WD connected with my laptop.
Do you have any alternative solution to revive it?? Please help me, if I give it up to service center surely they will replace it but data will be lost forever.
 
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try the drive on another computer, maybe yours has a windows configuration or a hardware problem. if the drive doesn't work in other pcs, then it's toast most likely

also do complete virus scans and malware scans on your host pc.
 

popatim

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Most likely this is a hardware issue and recovery is unlikely at the user level. If the data is important enough to warrant the expense then consider sending it out to a reputable data recovery service.

In the future, keep in mind that a backup is an extra copy of important files and not your 'only' copy. The more important the data, the more extra copies of it you have , all kept on different devices. You may even wish to store a copy away from your house/apt in case something really bad happens there.