No writable WD SmartWare partition found

[rimumiro]

There are a number of posts on this topic.  I had this happen today on an existing drive that I had used many times in the past.  I used partition wizard to examine the WD drive and this showed it had no drive letter assigned (it appeared as a '*').  

Using the above tool to modify the partition and give it a drive letter fixed the problem.

[Awopero]

Thanks mate,

I have seen a bunch of people with the same problem, hopefully this will solve the problem...

[simonthecool]

i also have this problem but when i click on the external HDD on the program it says that it is a bad disk do you know what to do?

[rimumiro]

It could be that the disk has actually failed - try doing a surface scan.  If it reports bad sectors, then the actual disk has failed

[simonthecool]

i think the disk really failed because when i did a scan and clicked on the lost\detected sector it showed me bad disk

[kshm1234]

what is the solution when i found '' No writable WD SmartWare partition found '' ????

please give me solution how to rectify .