So I spilled water on my WD Essential 1.5 TB hard drive. I think it is just the enclosure that is affected so I bought a Rocketfish hard drive enclosure.
Now when I connect it to the computer it installs drivers and everything but under my computer it shows two drives but I can't click them.
When I go to computer management a message pops up saying "you must initialize a disk before logical disk manager can access it".
Any suggestions?
Answer
How long ago was the water spilled? Like Mark said, the enclosures don't offer much protection (unless they advertise themselves to be waterproof, etc) against stuff like this.
If the spill happened only in the last few days, don't reconnect it.
Leave the drive in a warm (but not hot) area with very good circulation (or put it in front of a fan (but not an air conditioner, that'll just get it wetter) for a few days to make sure it dries off completely.
Then run any one of the standard drive recovery tools we've recommended ad nauseum elsewhere on this site.
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