Hi everybody,
I have a WD 1TB My Passport that recently stopped functioning out of the blue, it hasent suffered a fall, or gotten wet, theres no clicking, or disk errors (to my knowledge anyway). When I plug it in it spins up like normal and the light comes on, blinks 3 times and then remains solid. When I plug it in under windows it just pops up with the "This device is cannot be recognized blah blah blah" window. Under linux when I plug it in nothing happens, no messages, no /dev/sdb, no nothing.
So is my drive fucked? I have about 800 gigs of stuff on there I would love to have access to again.
idk if you guys need it but I'm attaching a pic of the front of the drive incase you need some #'s of something.
Thanks in advance.

Unfortunately, at this point you won't be able to solve it on your own.
Seek a pro help.

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what does BIOS report?

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@ppumkin - Would you mind expanding? Should I plug it in and and check if it shows up in the boot menu or is there some kind of bios hdd checker i'm not aware of?
@harddrivespecialist - Are you absolutily sure I need to take it to a pro? I know a good bit about hardware (not as much as you obv), could I replace the board with one from a doner drive? Could it be the cable? I've already gone through 2 of 'em.

Sorry about all the questions but I really need this drive back, it has like 4 years worth of backups and other vital shit on it.

Also just before it stopped functioning it said I needed to run chkdsk but by the time I got my windows rig up and running it stopped recognizing alltogether.

I don't know a lot about hardware. I just concentrate on hard drives in particular and try to provide advices based on my experience. PCB is not a problem, internal parts/SA is your problem.

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What i meant was - what happens when you plug it in your computer direct to sata and motherboard
Then turn it on and press DELETE to get into bios.
Does it report a HDD on that Channel? If not then like hddspecialist said. Its internal damage.
And with WD it common- they just "die" - Unfortunately i dont know anybody on Jupiter to recommendatory

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