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Gaming Smartphones Tablets Windows 8 PSUs Android Your question Get the answer Tom's Hardware>Forum>Storage>WD External Hard Drive I/O Error> Solved WD External Hard Drive I/O Error Tags: Western Digital Storage External Hard Drive Last response: 7 May 2016 21:07 in Storage Share rohit1991 unable to initialize hard drive i/o error 11 August 2014 19:34:31 Hey Guys, I bought a WD Elements 500 GB external hard
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dist about 6 months ago, It was working fine till Day before yesterday when I copied some files to it and then I
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actually stopped paying attention and left it plugged in. So today I noticed that it was actually not showing up in my computer! I checked in Device manger its showing there as working properly, I checked properties it
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told me it was supposed to be initialized, I tried to initialize it in Diskmanagement and got this I/O error, the point is that its working, rotating, being recognized, just not showing up, any help?? More about : external hard drive error Reply to rohit1991 popatim a c 1334 G Storage 12 August 2014 01:20:58 ejec t it then disconnect it and let it power down. repeat for your pc. power up and then reconnect the how to fix an i o device error on a wd external hard drive drive and see if the issue is still there. - if so the run WD diagnostic utility on it so you can warranty return it. Reply to popatim m 0 l rohit1991 12 August 2014 06:55:58 popatim said:ejec t it then disconnect it and let it power down. repeat for your pc. power up and then reconnect the drive and see if the issue is still there. - if so the run WD diagnostic utility on it so you can warranty return it. Thanx for the suggestion dude, but I tried it numerous times it dint work, It is actually under warranty but I dont wanna get it exchanged as The data inside is too crucial, Is there a way around? Reply to rohit1991 m 0 l Related resources 2TB WD External Hard Drive I/O Error - Tech Support I/O device error on WD external hard drive - Forum I/O Device error on external hard drive - Tech Support Problem with writing to WD hard drive ( I/O error) - Tech Support I/O error on external hard drive - Tech Support Can't find your answer ? Ask ! Get the answer Best solution D_Know_WD a c 1348 G Storage 13 August 2014 10:12:51 Hello there rohit1991, I am really sorry for the issues you are having with the WD Elements. You have done some nice troubles
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here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site http://superuser.com/questions/437255/cannot-initialise-hdd-keep-getting-i-o-error About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring http://superuser.com/questions/522782/external-hdd-i-o-device-error-cant-format-or-read developers or posting ads with us Super User Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Super User is a question and answer site for computer enthusiasts and power users. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best hard drive answers are voted up and rise to the top Cannot initialise HDD keep getting I/O Error…? up vote 1 down vote favorite I'm in a very odd situation that I think the HDD is toast... but I need a second opinion because I've tried just about everything I know and it will not kick into life. that makes matters even worse. The BIOS shows the channel external hard drive and port and detects the HDD. DiskPart can see the HDD as well and I run a quick format which was successful...? This is where I get lost. If DiskPart can see the HDD and you can format the HDD than, there is communication via data cable and PWR to the HDD is there otherwise you wouldn't be able to format the HDD would you. There are things that I haven't tried yet... running Seatools in DOS such better for fault finding. changed the data cable and the PWR SATA cables. The best solution for this? hard-drive hardware-failure io share|improve this question asked Jun 15 '12 at 12:55 Gemboz 1913 1 Where do you get the I/O errors? Did you already check the SMART values of the HDD? –speakr Jun 15 '12 at 12:58 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 1 down vote accepted I'm pretty sure that you are going to comment back and apologize that you meant the opposite... but I'm going to quote you here... There are things that I haven't tried yet... running Seatools in DOS such better for fault finding. changed the data cable and the P
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Super User Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Super User is a question and answer site for computer enthusiasts and power users. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top External HDD i/o device error can't format or read up vote 6 down vote favorite I'm using a 160GB Hitachi External HDD. When I was creating partitions, I accidentally formatted it from NTFS to RAW. I tried to format it back to NTFS, but I got an error ("could not format"). I then tried to run chkdsk on it, but chkdsk doesn't work with RAW. So then I tried with DiskPart, but the same formatting error occurred ("the request could not be performed because of an i/o device error"). I don't care if I lose any data, I just want to get my disk back in a usable state. windows hard-drive ntfs share|improve this question edited Dec 22 '12 at 13:09 asked Dec 21 '12 at 22:10 Hyztname 144118 add a comment| 4 Answers 4 active oldest votes up vote 5 down vote accepted Boot from a Linux LiveCD/USB and try GParted (or perhaps from GParted's own Debian-based LiveCD/USB). If that doesn't work, see if you can take the drive out of the case (obviously don't do it if it'll void the warranty) and directly attach it to a desktop so you can run GParted on it. On Gparted you'll have to "Create a new Partition Table" and then create any partition you'd like because it's going to format for it. If you still get I/O errors or GParted fails, use WinDFT and run an Extended/Thorough Test on the drive. If that passes, Erase the Disk and attempt to repartition: share|improve this answer edited Dec 22 '12 at 14:29 Marcks Thomas 4,85711333 answered Dec 21 '12 at 22:32 Karan 42.1k1073107 +1, GParted should be able to handle it. –neersighted Dec 21 '12 at 22:33 I've tri