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External HD issues
All,
I have a somewhat older 500 GB My Book external HD that was working fine and then apparently went caputz... All of a sudden one day I got some error that said it wasn't configuring right, yada yada yada, so I reboot, uninstall, reinstall and it says it's working fine. However, it's not showing up under my computer as a recognized drive for me to open it, etc... so I figured I was screwed and started going the route to just recover my files using some downloadable software, and that won't even recognize the drive.
At current state, the HD is not initialized, and even when I went to try to initialize it, it says "incorrect operation" or something like that and won't let me move on. I would appreciate any help, comments, suggestions. I was a moron and thought that I could just back-up my files to my handy dandy EXT HD and things would be fine.
Thanks,
C