Can’t Initialize Disk – Write Protected. Data Recovery Help.

Hi,

I have a WD 2 TB external hard drive, which had a hidden partition created using TrueCrypt.

After using the drive for about 6 months, it suddenly stopped working one fine day.

Symptoms:

– Can’t see in My computer
– Can see in Disk Mgmt
– Unable to initialize disk, says: Write-protected.
– Unable to recover data using TestDisk, says: Partition: Read Error
– Tried a lot of other tools like PhotoRec – they see the uninitialized disk, show me the correct size 2199 TB, but just unable to recover anything from it.

I have done the basic steps of restarting my laptop, changing the USB cable etc..

Please help me as I have been trying to figure this out myself for the last 1 month now 🙁 Please!

I forgot to mention that my external drive does not have a write switch to turn off.

I also tried the ThumbScrew registry change but nothing worked.

Running TestDisk again till I get someone to help me here. Its at 9% right now, looks like many more hours to go. will post the results here.