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I have a problem with this hard drive? it's been working fine for the year i have had it but, for some reason 2 days ago it stop working. bios and device manager can detect it but it doesn't show up when i click computer. i can only see my main drive. tried many things but it won't work as i can't see the drive. how can i get the drive working again or at least to show up so i can format the drive?

hmm, you could try and see if the WD tools will be able to detect it so you can perform a low level format on it.

Also try the basics, use a different sata cable, power cable, sata port.
Check if it's detected in the BIOS. If not, then it could be dead
Can you hear or feel the drive motor or platters spinning? Does it get warm?
If you can see it in the BIOS and WD Tools doesn't help, try "Ultimate Boot CD" and boot from this.
In the menu select "MHDD" and run this.
You can then run a low level test for bad bits / sectors & mark them bad.
The beauty of MHDD is that it will also test the access time and if it's very high, it will mark it bad.
Windows and other tools only check if the bits can be read, but if the OS thinks it takes to long to read it internally marks it as bad. You may loose some data doing this, but it will restore the drive back to "as new".
If the drive platters are seriously damaged it may still run, but you could be left with a much small hdd in the end.

If it's not detected by MHDD, try again but before you start MHDD the second time; on the menu press TAB first and type "raw" and press enter.

the hard drive is working again now but lost all the data on it however got another problem! my system is running really slow. it takes 3 mins to start up and my games are running at 25-50% lower frame rates and all is up to date. even re-installed vista and no luck?

sounds like something major is going on.

Might want to check the power supply and make sure it's not going on and causing voltage spikes that is destroying hardware. Also what is the primary drive? Does software like Crystal Disk Info show it being healthy?

Had a group of five 1.5TB Cav Green's crap out on me while back. Started to flake out in one way or another, most were bad sectors. Sent them all back to WD on RMA.

I would stop using the drive, and start going over the rest of the system with a fine tooth comb on the off chance there is another issue. Lost a whole rig to a power supply crapping out.

My primary hard drive is a seagate baracuda 500gb and secondary is western digital 2tb. both are reporting 97% healthy. it's taken me a while but i downloaded service pack 2 for 64bit vista and thats seems to have done the trick. all is working fine and now the pc is running faster. it only takes 30 seconds for my pc to load and 10 seconds to shut down now thx for the help guys.

DJ Tucker wrote:My primary hard drive is a seagate baracuda 500gb and secondary is western digital 2tb. both are reporting 97% healthy. it's taken me a while but i downloaded service pack 2 for 64bit vista and thats seems to have done the trick. all is working fine and now the pc is running faster. it only takes 30 seconds for my pc to load and 10 seconds to shut down now thx for the help guys.

Well there is your problem

yeah thats true bubba but vista has been fine until recently but once i get some money in my pocket then i will be doing a big upgrade