New cord for my wd passport

[quilabood2]

My wd passport cord on the usb end broke, I have a replacement but when I plug it into my laptop, it tells me I have to format

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there quilabood2,

Sorry that you are facing some issues with your WD drive. 🙁

Only the cable broke right?(not the port of the enclosure)
You can go to Disk Management and see how the drive appears over there. In case it is unallocated, you can try using some partition recovery software, as the drive may have lost its partitions.

Let me know how this goes,
D_Know_WD

 

[quilabood2]

@d_know_wd
It's reading as
Volume/layout/type/file system/status/capacity/free space/%free/fault tolerance/overhead
(H/ simple /basic/ raw/ healthy(primary partition) /931.48 /931.48 /100%/ no/ 0%
This is exactly how it looks in the disk management section

 

[D_Know_WD]

Your drive became RAW. You need to use some recovery software.
There are quite a lot of threads on that. Check this one for example: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/280932-32-hard-drive-recovery

Hope this will help,
D_Know_WD