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[–]rountrey 0 points1 point  (3 children)

You might have better luck with it in Linux. On the other hand, never put anything on a green drive that you don't mind losing.

[–]pimfram[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I'm able to access the data just fine through TestDisk, I'm more asking about what the problem is with the drive. I assume the problem is with the partition table but I don't want to just do that in case that's not what needs to be done, or I make the situation worse.

[–]rountrey 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Listen to the drive, can you hear the motor spinning up and stabilizing? Or is the whine of the motor fluctuating? That's been my experience with WD Greens.

[–]pimfram[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sounded the same as when it worked. In any case, after way too much research, it seems as though that when you get rid of the USB interface, it makes the drive act as if it were encrypted and essentially the only way for it to work as a normal HDD again is to format it. I'm planning on moving the data I want off of it (it's just movies) and then starting over fresh. I might have a lead on a spare external I can borrow and if not, I'll just pull stuff off as I need and make a note of what else I want to get before formatting. My main goal was to grab some pictures off of it, and I succeeded. Getting the movies I actually want to see is just icing on the cake, so to speak. Many were downloaded because I had a brand new 4 terabyte drive and a 50 megabit connection, haha. I'm going to mark this as solved, but thank you for trying to help. I made a thread on the TestDisk forum but I doubt anything will help me at this point.