Hard Drive Not Recognized

[tl6768]

My Western Digital MyBook 1.5 GB has recently stopped working. I spins for about 20 seconds, then stops. It is not recognized in windows explorer, but it is recognized in device manager and disk management.

Under disk management it says that it has 2047.35 GB unallocated space.
It also says the disk is unknown and not intitalized. When trying
to intitalize the drive, it says "The media is write protected".

I have tried swapping usb cables, running safe mode, and freezing it.

Any help would be amazing! Thanks!

Picture of Disk Management
http://i55.tinypic.com/dyaznl.jpg

Picture of Windows Explorer and drive properties
http://i55.tinypic.com/whlchg.jpg

[northwind]

I have tried swapping usb cables, running safe mode, and freezing it.

Any help would be amazing! Thanks!

I wonder why people keep doing this to their drives...

My guess is that the heads of your hdd are packed. If this is so, it's not DIY.

Good luck

[pcimage]

Heads are almost certainly bad.

Probably made worse by freezing it.

What is with people and freezing HDD's?

Like northwind says, NOT DIY

[Alexii]

proper diagnostics are needed at the moment. Possible problems are the heads or the service area.

[poehere]

They think it is an ice cream pop and data will taste better cold than hot. Who knows it is crazy what they do and why they think a freezer will magically give back data on a HDD. In all reality I have never once seen a freezer do any good at all on a recovery and give back data on a drive that is broken. I sort of like a fan better to keep it cool. I do not want to pack it in ice packs to keep it cool. Fans works great in these cases but people like the freezer better.