Hard disk not getting "detected"?

"Dan

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this has happen to all my drives from WD if you don't format them once a year they get messed up and lock up for some reason I have a newer one that just did this to me and its full of stuff i dont want to lose so from now on I am going to go to other companies for my external hard drives

"When I run the WD utilities program on my Passport Ultra, it will scan and test the drive and then tells me that the drive has ""passed."" Then within 1 minute it then tells me that it has detected an error.

I had to send out an older WD disk last year and it cost me $$ to get the data off and the drive was shot anyway. Besides the Ultra, I also have a 2.0 TB and a 3.0 TB ""My Books.""

You think I'd learn?"

I can't find my hard disk anywhere on my computer. The light comes on, it sounds and feels like the HD is working but it will not identify on any computer, regardless of drivers or in the drive manager. I opened it and the corners of the board look like they got hot. Is it worth it to replace the board?

"I’ve had and solved this same issue multiple times with two different WD My Passport drives; I thought they both had failed and we’re not recognizable on my Mac or any other computer.

You must boot your Mac in recovery mode (CMD-R while booting), mount, and run First Aid on the disks through the Disk Utility there. YOU MUST use the recovery mode Disk Utility to repair; it will not appear in your booted Disk Utility.

I hope that someone finds this useful. I thought I had lost years of music production backups, but i was able to save it with this method. Will be switching to a different brand of drives."