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WD portable HDD error/extra unallocated space, maybe broken. need4work
im currently stuck with a western digital passport elite HDD. its ONLY 500GB and it was working fine, when i hit the bootup today it didnt show up at all then it did show up but only in disk man. and it shows up as like 2TB of unallocated space that i can not initialize (media write protected or something like that) it houses a bunch of very personal data and work related files that i REALLY need to get off of there soon.
what ive tried already: most of what i could find online that i think wasnt to extreme. i didn't want to do anything that may make it worse so i decided to post here to get a second opinion.