How To Repair Wd Hard Disk Not Detected
Laila Berri
I did have to go into the Setup Menu and change the boot order so that the system would boot from CD first. I have the CD as #1 and the SATA drive as #2. Doubt that had anything to do with this but did want to mention it.
This system may require the drive controller drivers for an install, if you happen to have the discs from the system it may be contained with them, or do a lookup on the service tag at www.dell.com/support to find them.
The best thing to do is to replace the hard drive. Its a workstation not a server. Do you want to spend a lot of time troubleshooting failed hard disk for workstations? I have had issues like this before and trust me,its not worth the time to spend on considering the amount of jobs you still have to do and hard drives are cheap to buy.
Unfortunately, the Hirens Boot CD USB does not boot in the damaged PC when the HDD is connected. After boot, it immediately shows a message telling that the HDD has problems. I cannot even load BIOS.
This is false. Every UEFI implementation I am aware of supports BIOS emulation, which allows you to use MBR, and I am unaware of any major OEM manufacturer who has implemented UEFI firmware that doesn't support this legacy BIOS emulation.
This entirely depends on how many bad sectors. If the data is true that valuable professional data recovery services should be used, every failed attempt you make will make data recovery more unlikely.
Your current machine is configured to only allow EFI compatible environments. You would have to enable the BIOS emulation mode for you to have any chance of booting from the old HDD. However, that isn't likely to work, due to the massive differences in the hardware between the two machines.
If the HDD has too many bad sectors, there is no repair that kind of damage. The best you can hope for is to extract the data from the failed HDD. However, every attempt to access a file on a bad sector could make the problem worse. If you are hoping to boot from this failed HDD, you are simply out of luck.
The best you can hope for is, when you connect the HDD that does not boot to the machine that does, you can view and access the files you want. You really should create an image of the HDD before you do this; however, in my personal experience, just reading from the device can make the problem worse.
I was so relieved to see you fix but for 2 days been struggling and not getting anywhere so please help! I have downloaded the Acronis Disc Director trial version and I can see my disk however it says the drive is Uninitialized and when I right click it attempts to change the status to online which runs for abouy 2 hours with no movement. I am missing my media player, do you have any other suggestions to fix this? I have thought of throwing it out the window as its been almost 2 weeks and still not feedback from WD support to my query!!!
at first the hard stopped detecting i think it happened after a power failure. then after a cleaning the PC it detected and open once. it show an error saying windows system 32 file is corrupted check disk it and got stuck. after the second boot it never opened and i had to use a live run windows CD to check the Hard. after the windows open the hard shows C drive as corrupted says to format and D drive was perfect. yes thats the same Hard with two partition. when i start chkdsk it started showing unreachable. and later on after some boots the hard stopped showing on the PC and even cant run live CD while the hard is connected. any fix for this anyone??
Hi I bought a WD terabyte external HDD (p/n WDBABV0020BBK-00) and it was brilliant for about a month with my Mac but having left it in the drawer for a few weeks it has decided not to exist - i.e. it first of all said it was corrupted then when I plugged it in it is not discoverable. I plugged it in to my PC and it showed so I tried to re-format it accepting that the data I had backed up was lost, but then that stopped working and it is undiscoverable on the PC
When plugging in the USB stick, the light on the stick starts to flash, plus the USB stick is listed on the Devices Manager screen, its properties can be viewed. The stick is detected as USB stick, but it is not seen as storage disk (not mounted).
If you had time, skills and resources, you might be able to disassemble it, identify the faults and repair or replace the faulty components. This would probably cost more than purchasing a hatfull of new USB sticks.
Assuming that the drive has been properly partitioned and formatted, then this USB drive probably still needs to be enumerated for this computer. Open Control Panel. Go through Administrative Tools to Computer Management. Under Storage, click on Disk Management. Locate the USB drive and it probably needs to have a drive letter assigned to it. Do so (Right click and change drive letter - make sure it's not in use at time). Should take care of the problem.
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I Also had this problem and just solved it by chance.
Yesterday I mounted my USB thru' a VMWare session on a SOE; today the same device would not mount [it is one of 2 devices I sync with daily as an offsite backup].
Looking at the Computer Management console (as described previously) I could see in 'Device Manager' the 'Universal Serial Bus Controllers' was actually recognizing the device, the icon displayed it with a small downward arrow!
... realizing that this entry came and went with the plug/unplug action, I knew this was it, and therefore nothing wrong with the ports.
After exhausting all the re-scan hardware changes, re-scan disk drives, disable, enable, re-install drivers, etc, etc., the last thing was to Uninstall this particular entry -> worked, then 'Scan for hardware changes', and what do you know, Windows installed 'new' drivers and it mounted immediately; Back to normal.
I had this recently. Reassigning the letter did nothing, until I ended the task Explorer.exe (Ctrl-Alt-Delete, choose explorer.exe, select End task) and start new task explorer.exe. The drive then reappeared.
Use the windows disk manager first to create open space for the install.
Then you have 2 issues that may require a windows repair.
RAID vs AHCI mode for the disk.
Secure boot off.
Once both those are done then you may need to boot to a windows repair image and fix windows before you can see the disk and install from anaconda.
There is another possible factor that interferes. Intel Rapid Storage Technology (commonly known as RST) often is part of the raid issue and also has to be turned off in bios.
From reading all the threads here it seems sometimes the only thing needed is turn off RST, switch RAID to AHCI, and disable secure boot. It has been reported by some that windows will then boot without repair.
To summarize my whole story: the internal hard drive couldn't be detected, even in Disk Utility. OS Installs didn't have a disk to install. I was really scratching my head; my google searches led me to finding it was not an uncommon issue on older computers where it was the result of a bad cable from the hard drive to the mother board, but this model's HD is directly soldered to the MB I believe.
The next time I was in disk utility, I could finally see the internal hard drive. I verified it, ran repair, and choose it as the Startup Disk. Rebooted, and it was running good. For about another 30 minutes, came bake to a frozen screen. Force restarted and was having the same issues.
Another 20 tries of doing everything above, in no particular order, with and without anything connected (bluetooth, USB C, thumb drive with installer, etc.) the internal hard dive was detected again. This time I checked for the software updates to see if they had been corrupted but it indicated that they had been installed. No more updates to install. The internal hard drive was being detected so I decided I was going to do a fresh OS install.
Rebooted into Startup Manager with my Thumb Drive - erased the internal drive that was still detected - and was able to successfully run a fresh install. It finally booted but unfortunately to the recovery installer window. I restarted, and the flashing question mark folder came back.
setting it to 1 means on and 0 means off. Well after the first try, I rebooted my Mac and it recognized the HDD was inserted and asked for my password since my HDD is encrypted. I put in my password and then it asked to open disk utility, it opened disk utility but nothing happened afterwards, the HDD did not show, although at first it seemed like it had!
Now I am stuck again. By the sudden motion sensor may cause to park the head of the HDD if it senses a a lot of vibration. Which sometimes can happen if I ride my bike and have my MacBook in my backpack, so that is where my theory came from.
It happened to me also on Macbook Pro Early 2011. Using Sandisk SDSSDA240G, since yesterday (13/03/2018) not detected. Never happened before like this. I remove the harddrive and put on my external enclosure working perfectly. I put it back to my Macbook still not detected. Trying to put a flashdrive into USB and start Internet Recovery .. Internal Hardrive detected !! But when to format the SSD very slow .. 7 minutes not over yet.
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