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Hard Drive Not Recognized
My Western Digital MyBook 1.5 GB has recently stopped working. I spins for about 20 seconds, then stops. It is not recognized in windows explorer, but it is recognized in device manager and disk management.
Under disk management it says that it has 2047.35 GB unallocated space.
It also says the disk is unknown and not intitalized. When trying
to intitalize the drive, it says "The media is write protected".
I have tried swapping usb cables, running safe mode, and freezing it.
Any help would be amazing! Thanks!
Picture of Disk Management
Picture of Windows Explorer and drive properties
Last edited by Brink; 04 Oct 2011 at 23:45. Reason: embedded images