Western Digital My Book Essential Edition (WDG1U5000N) 500 GB Hard Drive "unformatted hard drive enclosure" Questions

...card failed, I disassembled the enclosure and plugged the HD in via IDE to USB cable but the drive was not recognized and seems to be unformatted. Easy Drive Data recovery would of been my first

...unformatted and unallocated, so it wasn't visible. After partitioning it, formatting it and allocating a drive letter, it workds like a charm. These older Western Digital MyBooks had bad components ...

...drive and when attempting to access it - unformatted error. I've tried chkdsk f:and it comes up with The type of the file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives. What are you trying to ...

...hard drive in the enclosure. Connect the drive enclosure to your computer and check if it shows up properly. If it does you're done, if it doesn't try the next steps to determine the type of failure. ...

...UNFORMATTED DRIVE WAS DETECTED SO WHAT IS THE PROBLEM It makes that noise because something is wrong with that hard disk mechanically - you need to test it. Install in a pc this ...

unformatted disk en wants to format it (but by then it is already turned off, so I couldn't if I wanted to). I have three years worth of photo and film stored on it, so I don't want to format the disk

...drive into a different USB-enclosure, or hook it to the PCs motherboard (which is inside the PC). If still not succesful, you can try to use Acronis Disk Director. This might handle harddisks which ...

...hard drive you can just take the data off. If the computer recognizes the drive as unformatted you'll probably have to use a utility like getdataback from http://www.runtime.org/ . If the test ...

...connect the drive to the external enclosure, and plug it into a spare USB socket. If the drive is new and unformatted, go into Disk manager and format it. I dont know what you are trying to ...

...hard drive in the enclosure. Connect the drive enclosure to your computer and check if it shows up properly. If it does you're done, if it doesn't try the next steps to determine the type of failure. ...