I have a WD1600jb that failed and I would like to retrieve data from. I am using it as a slave drive. It was working fine and just stopped. Jumper is in correct place.

It shows up in bios and device manager, but not in my computer or disk management.
I downloaded Western Digital's Data LifeGuard Diagnostics tool and it says there is a bad cable. Other drives work fine with same cable. Drive won't work in other comp either.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks.

Is it spinning up OK?

Sounds normal?

Clicking?

Spinning down?

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What capacity do you see in BIOS?

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Spins up, spins down, no clicking. Bios shows 131GB capacity, system information shows 149GB.

This is a drive I frequently plug and unplug. Pins are straight. Haven't checked much beyond that.

PM "wuasimodo" he is in your area. He should be able to help you out on this one and the cost should not be that great if all what you are saying is true. He is a pro on this forum and has the tool needed to get your drive cloned for you. Just give him a PM and see what he will say to you. Can not hurt and will not cost you anything to do this. Plus in the end you can have back your data. If you continue on and try to fix it alone then you risk chance of no data or a very expensive repair once you do decide to go to see a DR company on this one. Sorry to say it but it is your data your choice.

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BIOS sees it. Device manager even sees it. U got ur model and ur size. I am suspecting some bads or just corruption of MFT. Clone it ( backwards preferably ) or try scaning with tools like R-Studio , Easus etc to get the data.

I tried looking up member "wuasimodo" and could not find anyone with that name.

I can't scan the disk with any recovery programs if it isn't showing up in My Computer.

Any more suggetions? I don't have the dough for a Data Recovery professional, but will do what I have to do.

If device manager or/and Disk managment in Computer managment shows drive then you can use any professional software like rstudio to try and scan the hdd for data.
IF Disk managment says you need to initialse the drive- click NO! do not format or partition- just check if it shows on there.

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