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My Hard Drive no longer shows up in My Computer
I have a Western Digital 1TB Hard Drive (External).
I use it 99.9% of the time on my Windows 7 64bit computer to store pictures/videos and backup important files.
It was working fine until I plugged it into a MACINTRASH to backup files from that computer.
It was a simple copy and paste from the MACINTRASH to the External HDD.
After copying the files from the MACINTRASH, I plugged it back into my PC.
My PC no longer recognizes my external HDD. I unplugged the power, plugged it back in. Same with the USB cable. Rebooted. Then my computer wouldn't reboot and windows did its automatic self repair. Nothing.
I unplugged EVERYTHING and left it that way for about 30 minutes. I plugged EVERYTHING back to my computer and turned it on.
Windows booted up fine. I plugged in the external HDD and windows had that little icon telling me it was installing drivers. I was excited to think that it finally would recognize my external HDD.
Of course, it didn't work. The HDD does not show up in my computer. It does show up in Device Manager and Disk Management.
Device Manger
Disk Management
- Under Disk Drives it lists it only as "WD"
- My other drives it has a nice long name like "WD 7500AAK External USB Device"
- Under properties it tells me Volume information for the disk cannot be found. (The very first time I did that prior to the reboot it said there was 0MB of space on it).
- It claims the device is working properly
I have no idea what to do anymore. I've had this HDD long enough that I'm sure it is no longer under warranty. I've lost so many files. Please help if you can.
- At first this said that I must initialize my disk.
- Now it doesn't even show up anymore.