My Western Digital MyBook 1.5 GB has recently stopped working. I spins for about 20 seconds, then stops. It is not recognized in windows explorer, but it is recognized in device manager and disk management. Under disk management it says that it has 2047.35 GB unallocated space. It also says the disk is unknown and not intitalized. When trying to intitalize the drive, it says "The media is write protected". I have tried swapping usb cables, running safe mode, and freezing it. Any help would be amazing! Thanks! Picture of Disk Management http://i55.tinypic.com/dyaznl.jpg Picture of Windows Explorer and drive properties http://i55.tinypic.com/whlchg.jpg
Before going too far, download a Linux live CD and boot from that to see if it can read the data on the drive. If it can and you can copy the important files to a second drive, try some of the other methods to get it running - if it's under warranty I would be asking for a replacement. http://www.livecdlist.com/
