My wd 1tb external hard drive is not recognizing and if i do any thing to detect it it freezes the whole thing
Things that i already done :-
1.) uninstalled USB ports , registries ,change usb port/cable. result : tried so many times but still not showing up.
2.) I am using XP tried to use Disk managment . result : if i open disk managment after plugin in hard disk ,it won’t open,if i open it before and then try to locate external hard drive it freezes .
3.) Devce manager , if i open it and then plug in hardrive it shows the hardrive in disk drivers section and the USB controler section also have a entry named for my external hard drive it could be uninstalled (does’t matter still can’t open it)
4.) CMD if i try to accesse it with CMD it will take some time and say “error performing inpage operation”
5.) Next thing i did is use all the softwares and tools like test disk and wd softwares and many more but the bottom line is if i plug in my hard drive and do anything to access it(directly or indirectly) it will crash /freez/stop or won’t work .
possible resone :
one time when i was using it it stopped working and freezed so i directly removed the cable (" saftly remove" wasn’t working ) and thats how the whole thing started ,the only possible resone i can think of is it was set on" performence mode" and i removed it directly.
Edit: Solved
Guys fixing this problem was surprizingly easy all i did was running CHKDSK /f & CHKDSK /r .it may take lot of time but this thing fixed my problem.
I can only think of testing another computer in order to compare performance and behavior. If it is the same, then I would suggest replacing the hard drive for free (Under warranty):
Well, I followed this procedure and Still am unable to find my drive. Should I need to do all this for a brand new drive? More importantly, what should I do NEXT?
Ritesh. Not sure why you are asking me but I’ll bite :-) I can only see a grey triangle in the screen print. Is that corrrect?> When you run diskpart and type list volume what do you see?
how do get my drive’s name? It’s not in My pc window (not recognized) but is in device and printers window in control panel. they give the model but not the name.
To run chkdsk you need the drive letter (see Ltr column is diskpart/list volume/ screens above.)
If Windows has problems accessing the drive the letter may not have been allocated.
An alternative way is to run Start and type diskmgmt.msc
This will display volumes (disks). If your drive is displayed without a drive letter you can try and add a letter here.
If its a drive which is permanently connected to the computer (not USB) then the above all assumes that the drive is dispayed in the BIOS when the computer starts up. If its a USB drive then I would investigate removing the drive from the USB enclosure and connecting it to a desktop computer directly.