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USB External Drive not showing up
Hi all, I'm new to the forums, but I need help.
So I'm sure you have to answer questions like this all the time, but I looked through several different threads and none of the solutions given worked for me. I have a 500gb WD MyPassport external USB drive. It used to work fine on this exact computer/OS but all of a sudden the computer stopped acknowledging it. I had installed several games onto it, as well as put a few other files on. Right before the computer stopped the acknowledgement, every time I would open computer and go to my G:\ drive, it would run slowly for a minute then the panel would stop responding. Now the computer just won't see it at all. I've looked through disk management and it's not even showing up as an unregistered device or anything. I used the command to show any hidden devices, but that didn't help either. I'm out of ideas. If anyone could shed light on this, it would be great.
Btw, I'm using a Windows 7 Ultimate 64x. Also (some of you are gonna yell at me for this) I'm running it as a partition on my Macbook. I don't think that has anything to do with it (because my Lion OS still recognizes the device fine), but maybe it does. Thanks in advance