WD External HDD My Book Studio 2TB doesn't mount

Hello there
I was using the My Book Studio 2TB External HDD. It works fine until now. The External Drive just keep blinking light but not mounting on the os. I just wonder what is going on with my drive? Is there any method i can retrieve my data?
thanks very much

I have WD My Book Studio Edition II. The only way I can format it is via WD software (WD Drive Manager), since my model is the 2TB RAID. That's maybe one of the way you can do it.
On other note, I did experienced some issue with my new Hitachi XL2000 2TB HD. It won't format with disk utility under Mac OS Extended Journal. The only format I can use via disk utility is FAT-32 and some other windows format. But I managed to solve it by going to the partition tab and select option. From there I select GUID option.
Hope this will help to solve your problem
Message was edited by: Suzaidee

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