The Drive was working fine until the laptop properly restarted, then the drive became uninitialized.

Already tried recovering the Partition but the drive can't be formatted. Also tried initializing the drive but it fails due to an I/O error. The drive can be detected/recognized thru HD Sentinel, UVCview, Remo Recover and Stellar Phoenix Recovery and the USB device manager in Windows.
The Drive contains important media files so even if its under warranty, I cant swap it for a replacement.

Hope I posted this on the Right discussion and hoping to get help asap. Thanks and God Bless!

Why are you trying to format/initialize a drive that contains important files?

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Because, unlike when we started in computers and got thick manuals explaining every single executable on the system, and sometimes a circuit diagram, now the user has been so far abstracted from the computer they don't understand what is going on. If Windows tells them to format, that's what they'll do.

The first error is assuming the drive was working fine until windows restarted. Just because the PC was working does not mean it was not about to fail.

The help you need is in the form of a data recovery firm, else the files are really NOT all that important.

Give me your email I will send you data recovery software to recover your files.

He said " The drive can be detected/recognized thru HD Sentinel, UVCview, Remo Recover and Stellar Phoenix Recovery and the USB device manager in Windows." So its means drive had only logical problem. which can be solved with any professional data recovery software... If firmware or bad head issue the drive can't pass the system bios. So you try to relode firmware if drive can be detected/recognized thru HD Sentinel,. You are confusing us or may be you don't understand English very well!! and then you are saying I am playing with my clients!! keep your words good to me! and I don't recommend my service to you I just want to help him as free... and now you want to get the case to earn money don't try to bother us.

You did not understand the case and you only want to prove that you are No.1 in data recovery.

My Friend this is WD Element may be a USB external hard drive their is some new error coming which currently I am working on but this is not a firmware or head problem.

It is only a boot sector error.

And I know much about data recovery.

The enclosure contains a USB-SATA bridge board. It appears that your software is detecting this board but not the actual drive behind the bridge.

What exactly do UVCView and HD Sentinel tell you?

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