Frieder Gruen

FIXED !! Wow. Just wow. I found the "solution": the power cable was defective!! I definitely tried several usb cables before until I stumbled across this post: https://community.wd.com/t/the-request-failed-due-to-a-fatal-device-hardware-wd-hard-drive/263940/6 I had another 12v adapter and plugged it in and voila, everything back to normal. Just amazing how it seemed such a complex problem before. Thanks again for your time and for answering my first question on this forum.

Wow. Just wow. I found the "solution": the power cable was defective!! I definitely tried several usb cables before until I stumbled across this post: https://community.wd.com/t/the-request-failed-due-to-a-fatal-device-hardware-wd-hard-drive/263940/6 I had another 12v adapter and plugged it in and voila, everything back to normal. Just amazing how it seemed such a complex problem before. Thanks again for your time and for answering my first question on this forum.

First of all, thanks a lot for taking the time to answer my question! I should have found the page you linked to, but didn't think of googling the 25a3 name. Unfortunately, I don't have the space to make clone my drive (it's 8TB). So I took the risk and tried to intialize it. But I get "the request failed due to a fatal hardware error". It's mysterious. I noticed that it says "deleted" when I look up events, not sure what happened there, as I certainly didn't delete it. I did tell windows not to...

Maybe I left my brand new external HD plugged in while Windows 10 was updating, I don't know how it happened. However, now it doesn't show up in veracrypt nor in the windows explorer. When I press select device in veracrypt the external HD does not show up. I read through multiple similar posts, but most seem from people who had the same problem and then initalized the disk as GPT. I did not do that, as that seems to make the problem worse. What I did was restart, try different usb ports and finally,...