western digital hard disk my book is beeping when connected to lap top, what to do?

[Maharsein]

My laptop did not shut down normally and has to shut down forcefully. Later when connected to external HD My Book WD, it sounds beep, no hard drive is seen in disk management. What to do? though after disabling and later enabling the driver beeping sound disappear. But no disk is seen.

 

[fzabkar]

Does the drive spin up?

If you remove the drive from its enclosure and attach it to your computer's SATA port, can you see the drive in BIOS?

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there Maharsein,

It will not hurt to start with just changing the USB cable and attaching the drive to another system.
If the issue persists, I guess you can try what fzabkar suggested. Though, keep in mind that this will void the warranty(if still under any). Also, WD My Book is hardware encrypted. This means that you most probably will not be able to access your data if you connect the drive internally.
If the drive is still under warranty(and you don't need the data stored on it), I would advise you to contact WD's Support either by phone or e-mail and eventually RMA it: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=Ra3uhV

Also, if changing the cable and trying the drive on another system don't sort the issue out, your safest bet of recovering your data(in case you need it) is to contact one of WD's Data Recovery Partners: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=sV1ZBd

Hope this will help,
D_Know_WD