Hi,
Got a portable WDT-D2B 1TB portable drive that suddenly became inaccessible in Windows and also other media
player device that understands NTFS.
Windows Disk Management can recognize the disk as:
Unknown
931.51 GB
Not Initialized
The partition is Unallocated and the disk is also write protected.
I have tried Remo Recover using Recover Photo option but nothing has been found at all.
While connected to my Windows laptop, the WDT-2DB LED is slow flashing, ie alternating between on and off for
about 2 seconds each.
I really want to recover all the data from the disk first before considering reformatting. Can you please kindly provide
assistance ?
I forgot to mention I have also tried testdisk-6.14 to scan for lost partition but during the entire process I see
Read error at C/H/S.
I have the screen capture if there is a way to attach to the message.
HD Tune disk info:
HD Tune Pro: WD Elements 1023 Information
Firmware version : 01.01A01
Serial number : WD-WXD1A4117554
Capacity : 1000.2 gB (931.5 GB)
Buffer size : 8192 KB
Sector size : 512 bytes
Standard : ATA8-ACS - SATA II
Supported mode : UDMA Mode 6
Current mode : UDMA Mode 7
Avergae speed : 61 MB/s
Rotation speed : 5200 RPM
S.M.A.R.T : yes
48-bit Address : yes
Read Look-Ahead : yes
Write Cache : yes
Host Protected Area : yes
Device Configuration Overlay : yes
Firmware Upgradable : yes
Automatic Acoustic Management: no
Power Management : yes
Advanced Power Management : yes
Interface Power Management : yes
Power-up in Standby : no
Security Mode : yes
SCT Tables : yes
Native Command Queuing (NCQ) : yes
Trim : no
HD Tune Error Scan reported the following:
HD Tune Pro: WD Elements 1023 Error Scan
Scanned data : 163 mB
Damaged Blocks : 100.0 %
Elapsed Time : 0:10
1 Error at 0 MB (LBA 0)
2 Error at 0 MB (LBA 128)
3 Error at 0 MB (LBA 256)
4 Error at 0 MB (LBA 384)
5 Error at 0 MB (LBA 512)
…
2496 Error at 155 MB (LBA 319360)
2497 Error at 156 MB (LBA 319488)
2498 Error at 156 MB (LBA 319616)
2499 Error at 156 MB (LBA 319744)
2500 Error at 156 MB (LBA 319872)
ie 2500 Errors. But only first two blocks are marked red as Damaged and the rest of the disk is unchecked and left in
grey. Is the MBR damaged ?
Quick scan shows different visual results that it stops at:
Scanned data : 500 gB
Damaged Blocks : 100.0 %
Elapsed Time : 0:10
and all blocks up to 500gB marked as red … 
Is it possible that the encloure/case with the USB to SATAII converter chipset is at fault here instead of the actual
disk gone bad ?
Thanks,
MCW
