disk 1 is unknown, not initialized, unallocated

Recovery with Partition Wizard - great program worked first time thanks
jumanji

I am glad whatever I had written here helped - I don't remember what I had written.

Hi MyMaria,

Try what Brink says, absolutely no harm and you should. ( but honestly I don't have any hope that that will work.. As always I am a pessimist when it comes to WD drives.:) )

1. What is the Model of your WD drive? Elements / My Book / Passport?

Except WD elements the rest of the models - in both the desktop and portable varieties - have Smartware and hardware encryption in it that can go cranky.

Did you install Smartware? Did you Password protect it?

2. Did you format your drive anytime before to any other file system other than NTFS?

My questions are based on this thread which you may read. How to remove write-protection - WD Community

I can't get this to work for me. Any help?

HD Drive is a Fantom Drive 500GB (TFD200U2)

drjhawk2000 said:

I can't get this to work for me. Any help?

HD Drive is a Fantom Drive 500GB (TFD200U2)

Hi drjhawk2000,

Welcome to Seven Forums.

How old is the drive?

Is it still under warranty? If not you can open the enclosure, take the HDD out ( I presume that it is a 3.5" SATA drive and can be separated from the SATA to USB Interface card inside the enclosure ) plug it as a secondary drive on a desktop and check whether it shows up and is accessible. ( In this case we don't know whether the interface card or the HDD itself is faulty. And this is the only way we can determine that.)

Note: I shall not be visible in Seven Forums for the next two days. An unscheduled visit to Chennai. Hope others can help you in the meantime.

Thanks Jumanji. The drive is about 3 years old so it's out of warranty. I'll try your recommendation when I get a chance.

hi guys, i have this problem with my hdd ext, seagate free agent go 320gb, can anyone help me?if possible i don't want to format this because i need the files

i already try minitool partition wizard but the scanning is too long, 6 hours and it's stiil 0%, any other method?thx before and sorry for bad english

A quick scan should normally take no longer than five minutes.

Safely remove your Seagate Freeagent Go, and Shutdown your PC. After about half an hour, power on your PC, Plug in only your Seagate external and rerun Partition Recovery Wizard.

Launch Partition Wizard > Click on Partition Recovery Wizard in the Left Pane > Select your external drive >Next > Full Disk > Next > Quick Scan > Next. If on this repeated attempt also the scan does not progress, cancel the scan after five minutes and report.

If the scan is completed successfully, post the screen that shows the found partitions and then Cancel it. Close PW. We can rerun PRW after I examine the posted screenshot .