how to recover data from a western digital passport

[kjchatman]

I was trying to recover the data from a 4tb drive that was bought last september and it stopped working after a couple months. I bought a drive of the same model with the intention of using the pcb but after swapping the firmware, it still isn't recoverable or even usable. both pcb boards will work with the new drive as long as the firmware from the new drive is used. In disk management, the size of the drive doesn't show at all. is this corrupt firmware or worse?

[petehall347]

Re: how to recover data from a western digital passport

https://www.easeus.com/resource/disk...itialized.html

[reformatt]

Re: how to recover data from a western digital passport

Usually it's physical damage internally to the drive. If the data is important, I recommend you send this to someone who has the correct tools and experience to handle it. The jigs, clean room and software alone get into many thousands of dollars. You are either doing this full time or you aren't.

Check out this software...it's like 10K.

https://www.acelab.eu.com/