How do i get Fix or get my Western Digital Hard drive working “Not Initialized & Unallocated”?
Q. How do i get Fix or get my Western Digital Hard drive working? Every time i plug it in it just “Clicks clicks” like it cant go it just studder. i need to get the important Information off of it, but my computer wont recognize it it says its “Not Initialized & Unallocated” when i go to . Can someone tell me how to get the information off this External Hard drive its important.
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Sounds like you have a hard disc failure.
If it is making a clicking sound that usually means a mechanical failure inside the hard drive.
This can only be repaired by companies that have “clean rooms” set up to keep dust off the drive platter surface as dust particles are huge compared to the distance between the platter surface and the reading head. They will open the drive cover and run the drive to see if the mechanical parts are working correctly.
If the electronics – the circuit board – has components going bad, these companies have duplicate circuit boards they can install on the drive to make the drive work again and make the data accessible.
If the damage to the drive is severe (like it got water in it or it was dropped) they can remove the platter and put it into a duplicate drive they have and then extract as much data as possible; damage caused by water or being dropped can ruin the platter surface and make it nearly impossible to extract the data.
You can find several videos about this kind of recovery on http://www.YouTube.com/
Search for “hard drive data recovery”
One video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCapEFNZAJ0
Advanced Hard Drive Data Recovery Part 1
This video is 09:18 long. Skip the first 1:20
One company that has long advertised they recover data from non-working hard drives is DriveSavers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSavers
Using these services is very expensive.
Wikipedia article about Data Recovery (but this article covers other causes of data loss)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_recovery
TonyRB
Thursday, Feb 18, 2010
If it’s clicking, the failure is most likely a head crash and is not easily fixable. If the data’s important, send the drive to a professional data recovery company and they should be able to handle the job.