Short and long smart test check out 100% so the drive is still physically good. There is no data on the drives-just trying to get the drives to work again as they are just acting like a locked drive that cannot be formatted or even secure erased by the ata command. My friend was simply trying to use them as 4kn vs 512e. The drives were in excellent condition and still have <15000 poh on them. Im not sure if that was a crucial step, however. I never formatted it actually, and as far as I know, the format wasn't interrupted (but if it was, this makes sense). I formatted it to exFAT before I got it working, but it definitely failed to work again with the back port before I got it working on the USB-C port.
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Update WD external hard drive driver to make it work. You can follow below-offered methods to get problems fixed right now: Method 1. When WD external hard drive, USB or other brands of storage devices are not working or not responding to any operations in your PC, dont worry. Moreover, i suspect, you don't have expensive tools and knowlege to deal with hard drives FWsThank you for the reply. Fix WD external hard drive not working/responding issue. Anyway, procedure to resurrect it is quite complex and expensive and doesn't worth any efforts if data no need. Probably drive was in poor condition before you attempted to format it. You simply bricked SA when interrupted formatting with sector conversion. This is Helium filled HGST/WD CCB architecture hard drive. No thoughts? If it's simple, please point me in the right direction, or if not, at least give me an idea why.