WD Passport 120gb Help

**grush** · #16 26th Jul 2007, 10:21 AM

Freezer has got to be worth a try ,nothing to lose, worked for me on an old 6GG Maxtor

**Dave Hybrid** · #17 26th Jul 2007, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by grush

Freezer has got to be worth a try ,nothing to lose, worked for me on an old 6GG Maxtor

Interesting... Have to remember this next time.

Andy57 · #18 30th Jul 2007, 12:58 AM

Quick update for you all - Western Digital agreed a warrenty exchange (unit is 5 mths old) but wanted credit card details for a $170 deposit on me returning faulty item, plus I was told to use DHL or a similar courier. Phoned arround & best price for a return to their service dept. in Germany was £30...(a new unit is now £55) On the off chance, I e-mailed Amazon (who I bought it from) last Friday, a quick reply and phone conversation resulted in an offer to send out a new unit which arrived this morning!! I've to send back the faulty unit but postage will be a lot less... Oh, and I'll keep a back up this time.... Thanks Amazon...:)

**alex** · #19 30th Jul 2007, 01:04 AM

They are good aren't they Andy. I use them primarily for dvd's and suchlike but I did buy my Passport from them also. Have to remember what you've put should I get any problems.

Thanks for letting us know.:)

mizzspanishfly84 · #20 6th Aug 2007, 07:35 PM

Wierd that happend to me too, I went to boot it up and the usual icon is not there, it instead turned into a "local drive I:" icon. When i click on it, it says the drive is not formatted but give me an option to do so (which will delete all the data). I have the 80 gb hard drive. Its not working on my laptop or my desktop. I dont want to lose all my songs:(( any suggestions on how to retrieve data?

**Dave Hybrid** · #21 6th Aug 2007, 11:41 PM

Originally Posted by mizzspanishfly84

Wierd that happend to me too, I went to boot it up and the usual icon is not there, it instead turned into a "local drive I:" icon. When i click on it, it says the drive is not formatted but give me an option to do so (which will delete all the data). I have the 80 gb hard drive. Its not working on my laptop or my desktop. I dont want to lose all my songs:(( any suggestions on how to retrieve data?

Chances are the drive crashed.

In future please start you own topic.

And welcome to the forums. :)

KurosakisTwin · #22 26th Oct 2007, 08:48 PM

as of just today, no computers around my house have been able to read the hard drive. it makes me sad because it's gonna take [SIZE=5]MONTHS[/SIZE] to replace everything that's gonna be gone if I can't recover it.

Amyb · #23 17th Jan 2008, 11:18 AM

Hi everyone, just joined. I was searching for help as my Passport seems to have died on me....same thing as Andy....seems to be making several fairly high pitched buzzing noises and then stops...PC recognises there is something there but doesn't load as usual. I am very worried as I have a lot of data on it....do you think it will be recoverable?

I only bought this around 8 months ago :/

Amy