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12/19/11 at 2:58pm
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My friend came to me with a broken external WD Simple save Hard drive. I took apart the enclosure and found a small laptop HDD. I tried hooking it up to my computer through sata but cant get access to the files on it. I Went into device manager and it was recognized, but if i double click it and go under volumes tab it shows up as not initialized under the status and not applicable under Partitions. its WD3200BEVT
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12/19/11 at 3:06pm
Your first step should be initializing the drive, which you have to do. Right-click the drive's icon on the left of Disk Management and initialize it. Then you should be able to see the partition.
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12/19/11 at 3:10pm
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i did that, but it now says its unallocated, i need access to the files on the drive
Edited by Michael9127 - 12/19/11 at 3:12pm
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12/19/11 at 4:32pm
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i did that, but it now says its unallocated, i need access to the files on the drive

Unallocated means it can't read any partitions on the drive; you're not going to be able to recover any data here.
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post #5 of 5
12/20/11 at 4:19pm
In the future if you have a western digital drive in a enclosure don't take it out of the case! usually wd drives have a 3 year waranty or so and can be rma'd but once you remove it from the enclosure you void the warranty frown.gif
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