How can I retrieve data from a Western Digital Passport External Disk which is not getting recognized but getting shown as healthy in Device manager

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Published on 2012-06-10T07:30:06Z Indexed on 2012/06/10 10:42 UTC
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When I plug in this external harddisk It is not getting shown in the My Computer. But it gets shown perfectly well in the Device Manager

When I go into the Computer Administrative panel and into the disk manager it asks me to initialize the disk

Now when I try to initialize it, regardless of the method I try it shows me an error "Incorrect Function"

As you can see windows tells me it is working properly.

Is there anyway I can retrieve data from this?/access it? I have googled and it seems to be a frequent problem with WD drives. Anyone has any solutions on how I can get the data back?

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