WD My Book power died
Posted: 11 Mar 2014, 04:08
Ok so about three days ago my 3TB Western Digital My Book external drive decided that it didn't want to be powered on anymore. It was connected fine and everything was good for years. Then one night i notice its no longer connected. I thought the drive had died, however i noticed the enclosure wasn't getting any power at all. So i took the drive out of the enclosure.
Upon plugging the drive into the computer via esata and a separate power supply the drive showed up as unallocated. Frustrated i searched the web. Multiple people had the same problem with their WD my book drives. They suggested to use TestDisk to recover the partition. So thats what I'm trying.
The disk only had one partition on it, just one giant NTFS partition. So I looked at all the guides and ran TestDisk. Testdisk told me that it thought the drive was an "EFI GPT" partition so i went with it. Then I hit analyze, and then quick search.
The quick search took over three days. Finally today it finished. It's sitting with a screen that now has three rows in green.
The first one has "M-<^CM-4c?M-pp 7]" followed by start and end numbers..
the second one has "P MS Data" followed by start and end numbers
the third one has "P Mac HFS" followed by start and end numbers.
So that's where I'm at. I have no idea what to do next. All the guides tell me i'm supposed to see an NTFS row and stuff. I see nothing like that. I'm afraid to do anything if its going to take another 3 days to quick search the drive. Is there any way to save the quick search it already did? That way if I exit out of this but want to go back to it i can?
So yeah no idea what to do. Any help is greatly appreciated. I'll post the log when I get home from work.
For the TL;DR people out there:
I'm a total noob. Please help. I read all the guides and my experience is not matching up with any guide or forum post. What do I do?
Upon plugging the drive into the computer via esata and a separate power supply the drive showed up as unallocated. Frustrated i searched the web. Multiple people had the same problem with their WD my book drives. They suggested to use TestDisk to recover the partition. So thats what I'm trying.
The disk only had one partition on it, just one giant NTFS partition. So I looked at all the guides and ran TestDisk. Testdisk told me that it thought the drive was an "EFI GPT" partition so i went with it. Then I hit analyze, and then quick search.
The quick search took over three days. Finally today it finished. It's sitting with a screen that now has three rows in green.
The first one has "M-<^CM-4c?M-pp 7]" followed by start and end numbers..
the second one has "P MS Data" followed by start and end numbers
the third one has "P Mac HFS" followed by start and end numbers.
So that's where I'm at. I have no idea what to do next. All the guides tell me i'm supposed to see an NTFS row and stuff. I see nothing like that. I'm afraid to do anything if its going to take another 3 days to quick search the drive. Is there any way to save the quick search it already did? That way if I exit out of this but want to go back to it i can?
So yeah no idea what to do. Any help is greatly appreciated. I'll post the log when I get home from work.
For the TL;DR people out there:
I'm a total noob. Please help. I read all the guides and my experience is not matching up with any guide or forum post. What do I do?