[eastx2]

Hi guys,

I have a Western Digital 500GB MyBook external hard drive.
Few days ago I created a folder in the root of the hard drive and I put all the MyBook original folders/files (For example: ArcDeviceInfo, autorun.inf, $RECYCLE.BIN, System Volume Information...etc) in the folder that I created. After that, everytime when I plugged the hard drive USB to my Mac and the hard drive start with normal sound and then it make 6 louder clicking sound and the hard drive stopped. The Hard drive volume didn't show up on my desktop so I open the Disk Utility app. In Disk Utility, I saw my hard drive icon but the name changed to "2 TB WD External Media" (my hard drive is 500GB, now became 2TB).

There is no way that I can enter my hard drive because it disappear, I cannot access the hard drive from my computer. I tried to partition the drive (just to see if the computer recognize it but it said Resource busy. I think the main problem is I put all the MyBook startup files into a new folder that I created and now the hard drive doesn't recognize it.
Can someone please tell me what should I do? Any suggestion? I know go to a professional to recover all the files is an option, but that will cost me $900 - $2900 (they gave me the quote online).
I hope someone can help me with this. Thank you very much for reading this.

[Bill2reg]

You might try connecting the drive to another computer, possibly a windows PC. IF you are lucky and the PC recognizes the drive then you should be able to put those files back where they were originally, in the root where they belong. But you don't say how your drive is formatted. It would have to be FAT or NTSF for windows to read it I believe, unless you have a windows utility to read other formats.

[eastx2]

thanks for your reply. I tried using PC and other MACs but still no luck. The computer didn't recognized the hard drive. I'm not sure what format is the hard drive...I just bought it and use it with my PC and Mac without any problem for the past year...
Thanks for your reply anyway. If anybody have idea about this please let me know...I'm so scare that I have to paid thousands of dollars to get my file back...