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vijaidjearam
 Post subject: HELP ME MY WDD PASSPORT 500 GB NOT WORKING
PostPosted: November 16th, 2010, 16:11 
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It is getting detected, but cannot be activated or formatted,
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In the disk management it shows like below, but cannot be activated nor be formatted
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tried wd data life guard diagnostics it shows the drive status as passed
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Tried hdd low level format tool - format error occured at offset
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please do let me know if there is anything that can be done to correct the hdd.
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pcimage
 Post subject: Re: HELP ME MY WDD PASSPORT 500 GB NOT WORKING
PostPosted: November 16th, 2010, 18:46 
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Media degradation, RMA it.

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Doomer
 Post subject: Re: HELP ME MY WDD PASSPORT 500 GB NOT WORKING
PostPosted: November 16th, 2010, 19:52 
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Password protection most likely

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poehere
 Post subject: Re: HELP ME MY WDD PASSPORT 500 GB NOT WORKING
PostPosted: November 16th, 2010, 22:35 
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Try running MHDD and see if this drive is PW protected. There are tools in MHDD that can help you to determine more what is wrong with this one. Download it from here

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Doomer
 Post subject: Re: HELP ME MY WDD PASSPORT 500 GB NOT WORKING
PostPosted: November 17th, 2010, 11:11 
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Only if you can manage to run MHDD on USB drive :)
Which is not always possible

By password protection I meant WD SmartWare password

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vijaidjearam
 Post subject: Re: HELP ME MY WDD PASSPORT 500 GB NOT WORKING
PostPosted: November 17th, 2010, 13:45 
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I JUST RAN THE MHDD
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vijaidjearam
 Post subject: Re: HELP ME MY WDD PASSPORT 500 GB NOT WORKING
PostPosted: November 20th, 2010, 9:04 
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the drive doesnt have wd smartware because i ran the the firmware update it showed like this below
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Doomer
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G-List then

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