External hard drive problem

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derick - 15 May 2015 à 05:08
Boogieman_WD Posts 275 Registration date Friday 10 October 2014 Status Member Last seen 19 October 2016 - 18 May 2015 à 10:58

Hello,i have a problem to my WD element 1tb external drive, the drive appears and in the device manager the drive is not online it is Read Only it displays the partition and status,, but when i try to open a file or folder the error message occure "The Drive is not ready".. i try also check the security setting and it is full control to all users, i try also the doss command but id didnt work?? how can i solve this problem,,,????

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Computertech Posts 3569 Registration date Friday 6 February 2015 Status Contributor Last seen 18 July 2016 893
15 May 2015 à 05:13

Hello derick,
The disks can be made online by using diskpart utility

- Open a command prompt->type diskpart

-Inorder to list the disks in the system type: list disk

-Note down the number of the disk that you want to make online

-Select that disk to operate upon, For eg:, if the disk number is 1, type: Select disk 1

-Now that particular disk will be selected as teh active disk. If you type "list disk" command once more, you can see a * symbol on the left side of the selected disk

-Inorder to make the selected disk online type : online disk

- If the disk is made online, you will get a message that the operation is completed successfully

derick
15 May 2015 à 05:51

hello, i already did on the dos command and it appears the disk is online but when i look at the device manager the status is read only. when i try to right click on the disk1 only setting and help is enabled the others are disable, and i cannot change also the drive letter because it is also disable.
i try also to use usbfix but it didn't work also. i think the external is infected by a virus i try to scan but still the error message appear "Folder: Device is not ready "...

Computertech Posts 3569 Registration date Friday 6 February 2015 Status Contributor Last seen 18 July 2016 893
15 May 2015 à 06:05

Does it have any drive letter A or B?

xyloreinelace Posts 14 Registration date Friday 15 May 2015 Status Member Last seen 25 May 2015 > Computertech Posts 3569 Registration date Friday 6 February 2015 Status Contributor Last seen 18 July 2016
15 May 2015 à 06:16

drive c and d(dvd/cd) only.

Computertech Posts 3569 Registration date Friday 6 February 2015 Status Contributor Last seen 18 July 2016 893
15 May 2015 à 06:25

Your external drive shows c:?

no my drive c: <boot>
my external on drive f:

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