Thank you for the reply, I had tried to reinstall the drive but nothing is happening, i have tried all the software available in the WD website, i have even tried to format the hard disk, with the quick format software provided by them, Their is a software by name PP4R2-1-4-2, i have not tried it. I have tried the disk management system also, i dont want to format my hard, i have somany important files in it.so please let me know if their is any other way to solve my problem.and if format only is the option, i have tried to connect hard disk in other systems also, their was no use.

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I had tried to reinstall the drive but nothing is happening, I have tried all the software available in the WD website, I have even tried to format the hard disk, with the quick format software provided by them, Their is a software by name PP4R2-1-4-2, I have not tried it. I have tried the disk management system also, I dont want to format my hard, I have somany important files in it.so please let me know if their is any other way to solve my problem.and if format only is the option, I have tried to connect hard disk in other systems also, their was no use. I have tried all the option, and i think now i am left with the only option as stated by my frnd i.e. The three options, though the 3rd option is not an option for me as it is not in the warranty period and i dont want to loose my data, so i will try the 2nd option mostly. Regarding the cable, as u have suspected it works with a cable, though it is not a SATA cable.and i have not tried any other cables, as i can see that my power supply is working well with the cable, as the hard disk has a LED, which blinks as normally as it used to.

I have used the hard disk in my laptop(DELL VOSTRO) before, and i recently removed vista from it and installed windows 7 though not genuine. Is this may be a problem? Though i would not think so, as it had worked in the 7 OS for about 2 days.

Recently the hard disk is giving some sounds from it. Here I am with the same problem as original poster. My problem happened today. Only, for about a week, I heard little clicking whirring sounds coming from the Passport.

I began to copy my photos from the drive to my C drive. The Passport was also my backup drive, and had the Windows image on this drive as well. So I'm thinking about the options listed for recovery of the personal documents.

It is not in warranty. I tried a new cable, I tried a new USB port, I tried connecting to a different computer. I connected a different/new Passport to the computer (Windows 7 Pro OS) and I got a message that it had installed the software and the drive was ready to run. I'm reluctant to use any Passport now, once burned is enough for me. I recently purchased a 4TB WD MyBook to connect to the router for network backup, but now I have NO/ZERO confidence in Western Digital products. I may return it still in the box, and opt for an offsite cloud backup for all family computers. What exactly is a USB drive 'caddy' someone mentioned?

Or, would it be best to take it intact to a place like Staples and get my files salvaged? Better than personally dismantling the drive and inserting the guts in a caddy?

This failure happened today. Download forge for minecraft 1.10.2. What a bummer!

I won't be choosing a cloud backup service using WD products! Any help going forward is appreciated. Some skilled techs have figured out ways to access the drive long enough to retrieve data. I would not mess with your driver further, if you really need that data, unwil you find one of the experts. We have had good luck by replacing the electronics on the board attached to the hard drive. But it is not the sam on all Passports.

They apparently used drives of different brands. At least on the Passports I have seen, they used drives from a variety of manufacturers. We support the recommendations of others on this list. If you really need the data, look online for the companies that rescue data. Some charge as much as $400, while others will do it for $85, after a $50 lab analysis fee. Some skilled techs have figured out ways to access the drive long enough to retrieve data. I would not mess with your driver further, if you really need that data, unwil you find one of the experts.

You could always try something like WineX, but I would not get my hopes up about it working, and be prepared to spend at least a few hours scouring message boards and what not to figure out how to set it up. One other possibility, is to use an ODBC (Open Database Connection) setup. If you can have Access running on a Windows box, and then set up ODBC, you could, in theory at least, use some alternate interface to interact with and manipulate the Access database. Microsoft access for mac laptop. So you're stuck with either installing Windows as a dual boot option a la Boot Camp, or using something like Parallels or VMWare Fusion which runs Windows inside a VM.