WD reads uninitialized and unallocated

Welcome to the forum. You need to try specific partition recovery software to get partition back then files will be there don't use file recovery there are lots of free recovery tools on Google if one doesn't work try another

I read that it was better to clone the drive, before recovery should be attempted. Is that so? Though that is an issue too because Macrium doesn't recognize the drive.
I can just run Partition Wizard and see what happens if that is the consensus recommendation. I just don't want to further damage the data, if that is a possibility.

Thanks

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Hi , Electrickn,

When I am awake you will be asleep and vice versa. Doesn't matter.

When you wake up and see this, just do this.

In Windows Disk Management, Right click on the Disk 1( Unknown, Not Initialised) icon with the red arrow and click on Initialise Disk. In the next dialog box that pops up, choose MBR > OK.

If the Disk gets initialised, it will change to Basic, Online. Stop with Initialisation and do not proceed further.( Do not create a new volume. Do not format it.)

If the disk does not get initialised, it will give out an error message. ( hmmmm... too bad) Take a screenshot and post.

Let me know what exactly happened.

Did you manage to solve your issue with WD drive Electrickn?

micah2 said:

Did you manage to solve your issue with WD drive Electrickn?

Hey Micah...not yet. I've been working all week. I'm going to get back on it again over the weekend. I really need time and focus to make sure I don't lose my files (providing they're recoverable.)

I made a thread myself as I had a very similar issue. My WD was encrypted on top of that. What I did, I took it out of the enclosure, put it in a USB to SATA bridge and then WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic was seeing it. I run QUICK scan it came back OK, then I run long scan (it took about 18-20hrs) an it came back with information that there are bad sectors. It asked me if I wanted to repair them, I clicked OK. I had nothing to lose I couldn't get to my data anyway. Once it repaired bad sectors, I put it back in its enclosure and my Windows was finally seeing it and reading it. I am currently copying all data to a different HDD. Of course I don't know if this would work for you but it's worth a try. If the enclosure is not at fault, then you have a chance.