There are a number of posts on this topic. I had this happen today on an existing drive that I had used many times in the past. I used partition wizard to examine the WD drive and this showed it had no drive letter assigned (it appeared as a ‘*’).
Using the above tool to modify the partition and give it a drive letter fixed the problem.
Thanks mate,
I have seen a bunch of people with the same problem, hopefully this will solve the problem…
i also have this problem but when i click on the external HDD on the program it says that it is a bad disk do you know what to do?
It could be that the disk has actually failed - try doing a surface scan. If it reports bad sectors, then the actual disk has failed
i think the disk really failed because when i did a scan and clicked on the lost\detected sector it showed me bad disk
what is the solution when i found ‘’ No writable WD SmartWare partition found ‘’ ???
please give me solution how to rectify .