Hi. i have a 320gb WD element usb powered HDD and recently it stopped mounting into a pc. As soon as i connect the hdd into a pc, i hear 5 beeping sounds all in the same duration and then finaly windows attempts to install the drivers for it and just hangs and the drive never appears on the computer.
My HDD is only 4-5 months old so i am a bit surprised at it failing on me. Do you guys have any suggestions on how i could fix it?
I think its still in warranty as i have not tampered with it or anything but i am trying to avoid sending it back with all my data still intact just incase WD steal or use my data inside it
Any suggestions? thanks in advance
edit: i checked disk management and it recognises it their as Disk 2 but says that its not initialized?
i right clicked and select initialize disk and a popup window comes up asking me what partition style should i use.
the two partition styles i can use is MBR and GPT. i selected MBR first and an error pops up saying Incorrecnt function.
i then selected the other and still the same error
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