WD HDD - First connected but later didn't work, why?

Hey Community,
Yesterday I connected my external hard drive to my macbook pro. I wanted to activate the time machine so I have space on my mac. When the time machine automatically came up I forwarded it to connect it to the Time Machine. When the process started I recognized that mac is completely restarting and formatting the hard drive so I searched for any button to cancel the process because I had lots of files in it.
But there was no button so I separated it by pulling the usb cable. Of course the process stopped but after that I tried to connect the hard drive again. Unfortunately it didn't appear anymore.
The disk utility recognizes the external hard drive but I can't see it on the finder. I also went to preferences on finder and checked the box for external hard drives. Still nothing appeared.
Can anyone please help me?
My Macbook pro is OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.2 and the hdd is WD Elements.

Still struggling to understand why copying the entire root dir to a disk image and then restoring from that image did not, as expected, yield an identical system, and why I even had to reinstall after doing this.
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The only way to do what you want is to use cloning software like Carbon Copy Cloner.
My advice is to rescue your personal files to a regular non-TimeMachine external drive, Zero erase the ENTIRE drive and install OS X fresh and update, then your programs from original sources and files from backup.
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