I have 500GB WD 5000D032 external HDD, it worked fine for 4 years on various computers and OSs until today. Every time I plug it in, Win7 starts installing drivers, but disk doesn't show up in My Computer, while it shows up in Disk Management and opening its properties even displays that it's a WD external USB device.
Disk Management tells me that disk isn't initialized, but when I try to initialize it, I get an error saying "Incorrect function" with error window named "Virtual disk manager".
I searched for drivers on WD's website and they have none for my model, I also tried the trick with turning off computer's power switch for a few minutes to "reboot" motherboard, but it did nothing.
Any ideas/suggestions what might be the cause and solution?
Thanks in advance!!!
Disk Management tells me that disk isn't initialized, but when I try to initialize it, I get an error saying "Incorrect function" with error window named "Virtual disk manager".
I searched for drivers on WD's website and they have none for my model, I also tried the trick with turning off computer's power switch for a few minutes to "reboot" motherboard, but it did nothing.
Any ideas/suggestions what might be the cause and solution?
Thanks in advance!!!