My Passport Essential 320GB not being detected on my PC

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Hi All,

My passport essential 320GB hard disk is not being detected ( the drive ) on my system (Windows 7).

When i go to the devices and printers, its showing Wester Digital disk but the drives are not there in my computer. I have partioned my hard drive to 3 drives and none of them are being detected. Please help me on this. Attached are the screen shots of the errors and information dialouge. 

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Below is another screen shot of the error ( Drive details in Devices n Printers )

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Below are some more screen shots of the error. 

  •  When i go to Disk management, i am able to see my WD disk but its in “NOT INITILIAZED” state. Below is the screen shot of the same. 

–  When i click “OK”, i am getting the below message.

 

Please help me recover my disk… 

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Guyssss…  Please help me here. I have some very important doc’s in there and i need it        :cry:

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I am going through a similar problem right now. There are a couple of softwares which might help you recover lost data-Recuva, Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery,etc. Have you tried Data Lifeguard Diagnostics? It can tell you about the state of the hard drive.

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Recuva might work, Stellar Phoenix software isn’t great for data recovery.  Without using the Data Lifeguard Diags, the drive is shot.  Maybe, a format might fix it, but like you said you have important documents on there.  I would recommend taking it to a Data Recovery facility to see if the data is recoverable.

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No, that tool is not detecting the disk at all :( 

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And for formatting, i am not able to see the disc itself. :( 

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Yep…You have the same problem as me. Is your drive in warranty period? Why don’t you go for a RMA. It might be the best method…

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Click here to read what is happening to my drive. I even contacted WD but all the methods they told me had simply no effect…