Problem recognition

Hello , I understand that this issue has already been created but still. Ceased to operate portable WD. The computer indicates that it is installed , but my computer is not recognized . I tried to go through the disk management , it shows that he does not intsilizirovan , and that his name disk1 and takes places 0 MB , although it should at least 1.8 TB . Prompt what to do when trying to intsilizirovat , it gives an error in the I / O .wd portable

Hi, I believe the drive has lost its file system and at this point, it needs to be initialized first to make it accessible again. Also, if you have important data on that drive then first recover it with the help of data recovery software before initializing it. Thanks!!

if the drive can’t be recognized before initializing it …
how are you supposed to perform a “software data recovery before initializing it” ?

makes no sense