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Hi,
My 500gb external hard disk isn't working anymore, so I ran testdisk on it.
Drive F: - 500 GB / 465 GiB
CHS 60797 255 63 - sector size=512

According to the TestDisk Step by Step guide, I chose the 'Analyse' option.

It says Partition: Read error

I chose the only option available 'Quick Search ...

Any help, please?

Plug it in internally?
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/178/e/0/1_by_lazingclouds-d554qw2.jpg
As, just plug the usb cable inside the case via the usb port? I tried that but It is still not detected on the disk management console.

Side note, here is a picture of my hard disk before removing ...

Ok, then I won't be touching the disk case anytime soon.
Yes, it is possible to check both.
When I checked the device manager, I got this:
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/177/f/3/1_by_lazingclouds-d54zi4f.jpg
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/177/1/7/2_by_lazingclouds-d54zi6t.jpg ...

Hi, thank you for your reply. I'm not very good with computers; may I ask how do I check my disk for encryption? I tried googling it and point towards how to encrypt drives instead.
And for the removing the hard disk from the enclosure, do you mean the casing? I haven't removed it form the casing ...

Hi,
I have a 500GB external WD hard disk. Recently, it suddenly went blank. The properties say it is
Type: Local Disk
File system: RAW
Used space/ free space: 0

There used to be around 200MB of data in the disk, which somehow vanished.

I tried running TestDisk and PhotoRec, but the disk doesn't ...