HDD "unknown", "not initialized", no capacity, no nothing. But physically working and showing up in the device manager

Question

It's a WD hard disk.

I'm using its original PCB and the disk turns on, is physically running, and the WD software diagnostic shows "PASS".

It appears in the device manager, but in the disk management is shows as "unknown" "not initialized".

I tried to "rebuild MBR" and "partition recovery" but nothing worked...

Info about the disk (R-studio)

For some time, this disk had been having some issues: sometimes, I tried to open it on Windows and it took a while and only then it showed the folders inside; sometimes, the HDD didn't even appear, and then often I just restarted the computer and then it would appear. But now it's this.

What could I do to recover the data from this disk? Thank you very much.

Answer 1

You should create an image of the hard disk, then recover data from the image. This software is good for your case: Easy Recovery https://www.ontrack.com/products/data-recovery-software/