External Hard Drive (WD Elements) is visible in PW but not in explorer


  1. cobrasl
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    External Hard Drive (WD Elements) is visible in PW but not in explorer


    My WD Element HDD is not working after I plug it in to my WDTV unit. I tried to recover my files using PW but I'm unable recover it can anyone please help me..

    How it shows in Explorer

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    but it does not appear in Disk Management

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    HDD is visible in PW

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  3. ThrashZone
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    Hi and welcome to SevenForums,
    You should ask here instead seeing you're using win-10 :)
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  4. cobrasl
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    Thank you
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