urgent help with hard disk doing wrong . please

And now the error changed (in all folders)

CKWD said:

Actually ICit2lol, OP has mentioned a few times that he has a lot of very important information on that external WD My Passport hard drive. So reformatting is out of the question in this case. Also, I think he's using one OS – Windows 7 (for which in my previous post I wrote Vista by mistake, but now have corrected it, so I apologize).
I hope he'll run the WD DLG Quick and Extended tests to see what kind of errors (and if) it will show for the drive.
But so far it seems like a lost partition to me, though, I would like to see a screen shot of Drive Management and continue from there.

Cheers!

CK_WD

Ok missed that in my rush so if that is the situation then Edi might be better off using this before anything else

BOOTABLE UBUNTU

Make a bootable Ubuntu disk http://www.ubuntu.com/download

Set the BIOS to boot from theoptical when the machine boots it will show you a screen with TRY or INSTALL> select TRYnot INSTALL

When it is finished - it takes verylittle time you will get a screen like in the pic .

Open the drive you want > Userand dig down until you get to the data / settings you may be able to copy /paste the material you want to an external source or other installed drive doingthis.

I am not sure if it will but I haverecovered tons of data etc using this method both on "dead" or justplain drives that you cannot get data from using Windows. It does not get absolutely everything but usually what one wants.

By the by the drive letter can be added with Partition Wizard if it has been lost as Jumnaji says.
If you want CK I will duck out as I don't feel I am contributing that much here in this thread.

CK both of those things can be fixed with Partition Wizard unless there is something very wrong with the machine or the OS. See pics and if not sure post back

Nope, I am not posing any challenge to anyone.:)

The screenshots posted by the OP are confusing and may be under different conditions. I thought the OP will respond to my last post - post #22 and from thereon you can takeover. ( Unfortunately I do not have much time to devote to this forum and can't follow up if I enter. So I always think twice before entering any thread.)

Since the OP hasn't responded to my last post, I shall pose the following questions and ask for more information that will clear - I presume :) - the confusion and you/we may be in a better position to help him.

1. What is the capacity of your Western Digital external Passport drive? Can you read the label and give us the exact nomenclature/Part number?

(It does appear in Device Manager and as drive F in your computer. Computer>My Passport F: (post #16). But there is no corresponding Windows Disk Management shot from which we could have known its capacity. In your post #20 it shows as an Unallocated 2TB drive in Windows Disk Management.. In post#21 further down it shows as Computer > F: And as far as I can see it is not physically present in your computer or so I think.. No Device Manager/WDM screenshot. We remain as confused ever :))

2. Now please do this: Disconnect your computer from Internet - by whatever means.Make sure that there is no auto reconnect. Shut down your computer. Plug out your Passport external drive as also any other external drive/s, pen drives, USB hubs.docks. Boot your computer and then plug in only your WD external drive. Post a screenshot of Device Manager and Windows Disk Management. ( After taking out the screenshots you can reconnect to the internet and post them or post from another computer. During any further troubleshooting as advised by anyone here , you will disconnect from the internet and then only plug in your external drive to carryout any recommended action..)

@ICit2, As I was composing this post your post appeared.. Anyway it does not matter and I am going ahead and posting it. No modifications needed in my post. But as I said I shall only peep in once in a while without any further interference. :)