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External Hard Drive: Inaccessible
Greetings, W7 Community. I have 2 external hard drives: Drive K and Drive L. I was working with some files on Drive C when the audio signal of an external device being added or removed sounded out of nowhere. Now, Windows does not recognize Drive L. When I try to access the drive, I am told that I must reformat the drive in order to use it. I also get an error message saying that the drive is inaccessible because of a "Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check)." I disconnected and reconnected the drive. No change. Then I tried to use the "Safely Remove Hardware And Eject Media" app. It said it couldn't eject the drive because it was "still being used by another device." It said that in order to eject the drive I would have to shut the app that was still "using" it. But I have no idea what could possibly be "using" it. I did several restarts and repeated these actions. Still nothing. What ever caused this did not effect Drive K, but I disconnected it just to be safe. This is a 3TB Drive and it is nearly filled with irreplaceable data. Please tell me there is a way to access it. Thanks.