donkey-girl Posted November 10, 2023 Share Posted November 10, 2023 As topic says What to do with my WD Green intern harddrive 3 TB seems really dead my pc refuse to read it and as soon I connect the disk I get blue screen, unpluck it and put it in my dock and the same it wont read it adt got pop up with wrong parameter, can I do some other thing so it can be read and get my stuff out from the disk, also tried it on other computer no luck. The disk havent been droped on the floor or things like that. I,m not going to pay a fancy cars price for get the stuff. Just something I maybe can try my self here at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kasper Posted November 10, 2023 Share Posted November 10, 2023 download and install crystaldiskinfo https://sourceforge.net/projects/crystaldiskinfo/files/9.1.1/CrystalDiskInfo9_1_1.exe/download and put a screenshot of it here donkey-girl 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkey-girl Posted November 12, 2023 Author Share Posted November 12, 2023 Finaly found a way to open the disk so here is info from crystal disk, guess the wd disk is no good to use but still keep it in a box let me know what to do or not do with it. Thanks in advance. BTW its not the first time I have problem with that wd disk bu it have been spinning without probs for over a year until now where it give up. Ps its running now and I got empty the disk with som dificulty and some errors on its way most stuff is just ok some not but it can be replaced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kasper Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 from that wd back up data and not use it after death it needs to be replaced Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkey-girl Posted November 13, 2023 Author Share Posted November 13, 2023 Thats what I have done, all data is almost intact and kopied to new HD, That wd HD I guess will only give me problem another time and is not usefull any more så I will destroy the disk now its total empty. Is that what you will sugest me to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kasper Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 @donkey-girl yes donkey-girl 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkey-girl Posted November 13, 2023 Author Share Posted November 13, 2023 That I will be doing, I also dont count on any program to fix that HD,so it will be going to be destruated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mp68terr Posted November 26, 2023 Share Posted November 26, 2023 On 11/13/2023 at 1:26 PM, donkey-girl said: Thats what I have done, all data is almost intact and kopied to new HD, That wd HD I guess will only give me problem another time and is not usefull any more så I will destroy the disk now its total empty. Is that what you will sugest me to do? Easy enough to physically destroy it: just few srews to open it, then holes, burning or bending of the disks. For the paranoid ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notam Posted November 26, 2023 Share Posted November 26, 2023 Got a 2 TB HDD. its not being detected by my PC. Tried swapping but not being detected. have a lot of data on it. Any help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLord Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 (edited) On 11/26/2023 at 11:34 PM, Notam said: Got a 2 TB HDD. its not being detected by my PC. Tried swapping but not being detected. have a lot of data on it. Any help Perhaps opening a new topic and posting your problem separately along with some more info would be the best first step in order to receive help. Edited November 28, 2023 by DLord lurch234 and funkyy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkey-girl Posted November 27, 2023 Author Share Posted November 27, 2023 (edited) 18 hours ago, Notam said: Got a 2 TB HDD. its not being detected by my PC. Tried swapping but not being detected. have a lot of data on it. Any help No need to hijack my topic, so please open a new topic with your problems, Thanks in advance. Edited November 27, 2023 by donkey-girl lurch234 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aum Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 You could try creating a LiveUsb of a Linux distro (i suggest Bodhi linux) and boot from the LiveUSB). If you have a Windows PC available, you could use Rufus to create the bootable liveusb. See: < https://trendoceans.com/how-to-create-a-bootable-usb-using-rufus-for-linux-distributions/ > Download Bodhi linux ISO from: < https://www.bodhilinux.com/download/ > Then boot from liveusb and see if it recognizes your hard disk, if it does you could copy your data to another drive. If not, your drive is dead. Worth trying! donkey-girl and funkyy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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