WD my book 1110 1T external HDD is not showing in the windows explorer & disk management

[spatheus]

hi guys

i have WD external 1T HDD was working fine then while i was transffering 70 giga to it a message popped up say "source messing" my HDD is partitioned into 3 parts every partition with 310g size

i unplugged the hard disk and plugged it again 2 partitions show up in the windows explorer 1 partitioned that i was ndata to it show up also but i was not able to access it cuz of this message "cyclic redundancy check error" i used chkdps /f to fix this partition it worked i tried to take my personal data from this partition it started copying with without problems after about 1 giga been copied the transfer rate went up to 0 i waited for ever nothing happened i restarted my pc then suddenly this partition went "allocated" i went back to the other 2 partitions same prob transfer rate drops into 0 after copying few files

then i unplugged the my external hdd and plugged it nothing show up in the windows explorer and disk management loads forever

then i used mini tool partition to recover my partitions the result was 2 partition was ok but they are assigned with numbers instead of letters like 1: & 2: instead of D: & E: now i cant access then from dos or from any other programs

if any one there can help me to fix my external HDD or at least suggest a way i can get my personal data from the hdd

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey spatheus. I'm very sorry to hear that you're having such issues with your drive. I'd recommend that you try accessing the drive with Linux Live USB/CD and hope that it recognizes it properly so that you can get your important data out of the drive. You could also try some of the data recovery options listed in this thread: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1644496/lost-data-recovery.html
If you manage to get your data, then I'd suggest that you download DLG (Data Lifeguard Diagnostic) and run both tests on the drive to see if any errors pop-up or if there are any bad sectors: DLG, but only after you've backed up the data so that you don't further damage the drive before you recover everything if it turns out to be a physical issue with the drive.
Also, please don not take the drive out of the enclosure, because My Book has hardware encryption and even if the drive is recognized and you manage to recover the data this way - it will be encrypted and useless.
There's always another option, which is a professional solution, such as a data recovery company. Here you could take a look at the WD data recovery partners

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD

 

[spatheus]

well thanks boogie for replying that makes me happy there are good news are i retrieved my data from 2 partitions even tho whey were assigned with numbers however the third partition i found it merged with partition assighed with number 2:

means i were having they should be like this 1:=310 gb 2:=310 gb 3=310 gb but in the program i am using now (active partition recovery) they rae like this

1: = 310 gb 2:=620 gb

seems like partition 2: & 3: merged together

i run superscan to detect any partition which is number 3: bingo it found my last lost partition then after full scanning that partition where having like 27 bad sectors after it finished the scan process.

i unplugged my hhd cuz it was very hot i came next day i ran the same process end up at 3% from the scanning my lost partition with more than 25 bad sector

means it is getting worse

wht i could understand how come the number bad sectors is getting increased

^^ any ideas on fixing them

notice every time i have to run the super scan to force the third partition show up in the program ^^

 

[Boogieman_WD]

It doesn't sound good at all. If the drive is "generating" bad sectors so fast, it sounds like it's going to fail soon. The important thing is that you've managed to get the data out of the drive. About the new bad sectors - well, when bad sectors start to occur, this continues until the drive eventually dies. This process is irreversible and it could take days, weeks, months or in some cases even years for the drive to fail, but unfortunately it's impossible to tell when this is going to happen. In your case it seems like it won't take too much time, so I'd recommend that if you have no more important data on the drive, that you run the DLG tests and if the drive is still under warranty - contact customer support to see if you can RMA it: Warranty & RMA Services

Good luck mate!

 

[spatheus]

ok boggie thanks for being active in my thread bro but i need to ask you something really important my external WD hdd is recognized as usb 1110 when i try to remove it safely but no partitions there i cant see anything at all

now i am telling my self fck the data i want just to format the HDD but no program detect the my WD HDD and in the my program (active partition recovery)

it keeps saying initializing hard disks for ever

can u give me any tips i can get my hard disk detected to for mate it

and do u advice me to try another operating system like linux

best regards

 

[Boogieman_WD]

If you've decided that you don't want the data, then I'd recommend that you go with Disk Management and try to initialize it this way. It will lead to partitioning and formatting the drive afterwards. I didn't recommend it right away, because that shouldn't be done if there's data on that drive which needs to be recovered. Here's how to do that: How to initialize a hard drive in Windows
This should leave you with the whole drive's space as "unallocated" and from then on you could partition and format it: How to partition and format a hard drive using Disk Management
For both guides - just click on the corresponding OS and follow the instructions.

And as for Linux, yup, you could try Linux Live USB/CD to see if it can recognize the drive as stated in one of my previous posts (this is basically a portable, bootable version of Linux, which helps a lot sometimes in cases like this). But I'd recommend that you try the Disk Management option for initializing.