WD external disk error

[BC]

Tried what exactly with windows?

my computer > E/F drive access?

yes that will get denied... should actually come up with a message about granting access unless its formatted with some other partition like reiser/etc

under windows you should be right clicking my computer and choosing manage then seeing the disk loaded...
Make sure you're looking at the right one... they load 2 disks... CD (WD Ware) + Open Storage
in the disk manager you'll see if it can read the partition format - if its ntfs / other - no matter what you'll be able to wipe the storage side via any OS but can't wipe the non-storage CD Side... not without a little firmware flash / using WDWare tools to turn it off

I'm wondering if he's seeing the virtual CDRom that these load... and not the actual storage...

[Nara]

@BC said:

Tried what exactly with windows?

Using diskpart to clean the drive

[Ambarishrh]

@BC I tried the Disk Management, Selected the 2TB WD HDD, it was not initialised. Tried to initialise the disk and got access denied error. I hope you read my initial posts, that I tried the same thing using Disk Utility on a MAC and dd command to clean the hard drive.

@nara Tried the diskpart as well but without success. I am actually checking Spinrite if that helps. Will let you know the results soon.