WD 1023 Write Protection

[Skudor]

Hi,

I am currently having issue with an Element 1023 drive. My problem is there's a lot of data on the drive that I need to access.

What happens is the following:
The drive shows in device manger but I can't access the drive through my computer, in computer mangement under disk management I cannot initialize the disk gives a write protection error.

What I've tried so far:

- Diskpart:
Disk shows under command "list disk" but cannot do anything on the disk, I get a write protect error.

- WD Smartware
Doesn't show the drive in smartware

-Linux Boot CD
Cannot even see the drive

- Data Recovery
Cannot do anything cause of the write protection


I've tried it on different computers but get the exact same on every computer.

Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated.


Skudor

[rustypup]

is this a self-powered unit?

if not try another USB cable, (preferably a Y cable - it will consume 2 USB ports but provides dedicated power off the one port). try to use one of the MOBO ports, (those attached directly to the MOBO), not the extended ports in front/on top of the case.

be prepared for bad news - these drives fail regularly...