I bought a wd passport november 2012,i never dropped it and only used it 10-20 times.one day i plug it in and my laptop and nothing! Also it is not showing up in disk mangament! I took it to geek squad and they said it could be a mechanical failure.Therefore they told me it will cost 100s of dollars to get the data off of it if its that important to you.When i plug it in the light is on but its a solid light.I hear no clicking noise but i do hear spinning.any help would be grateful.Also i tried hooking it up internally but it seems WD purposely made it that you cannot…Please help this data is very valuable to me!
Did you try a different USB cable that’s not longer than the original?
Joe
Yup i tried that and nothing,i was even thinking about doing the freezer method.I really dont want to pay a grip for a data recovery service.There prices are bananas!
