[bulldogz400]

About a year ago I bought a Western Digital Passport, 250 GB. I used without any problem till memorial day. When I plug in yesterday, the "Safely Remove Hardware" says that it's there. But the drive volume is represented with weird symbols. I went to Device Manager and looked under Disk Drives, and the drive shows up. I click on properties and click "Populate". It says that the drive type is unknown, status is unreadable, partition style not applicable, the capacity is 0, the unallocated space is 0, and the reserved space is 0. The drive is no longer under warranty and Western digital did a crappy job of helping.

I took to my office and test on two window xp computers, the same thing happens. No volume letter and do not allow me to assign a new volume letter. I have a lot of data on it and I want to rescue my data!!!!


Any suggestion please! I was stupid and didn't backed up the data.

Suggestion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I googled for two days and nothing solved my problem.