My WD Caviar Green SATA HDD cannot be detected

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Published on 2013-12-29T06:54:14Z Indexed on 2014/06/07 15:28 UTC
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I have a WD 2TB Caviar Green SATA HDD. I used it as an external hard drive formatted to FAT32. The main purpose was to store my PS3 games. It worked fine and all of a sudden my PS3 stopped detecting it.

I tried connecting it to my pc and the same result. I took it off from the enclosure and plugged it directly to my PC and used the BIOS setup. The BIOS setup detects my HDD but it says it's 0.0MB!!!

I also tried the WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic tool and it wasn't much of use because the drive is not picking up by windows at all.

Is my HDD dead? Is it beyond repair?

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