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Flashing light on WD 500GB External Harddrive




By nsfronk on Nov 25, 2008

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My computer will not recognize the hard drive since it started flashing. How do I fix this or reset the hard drive?
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Solution #1

posted on Nov 26, 2008
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Howardepgco
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This may sound silly,but sometimes if you put the drive in the freezer overnight it will work long enough for you to retrieve your data.Make sure you are ready to copy the data to another as it will likely fail again once it warms up.
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8 Other Users Have The Same Problem - Continued

Comment by GloomM, posted on Jan 08, 2009

same problem, not used it in a while, now it just flashes

Comment by HJGR, posted on Dec 06, 2008

I have not used ours for a long time. when I hooked it up all it does is flash. If I took it in to Best Buy, could they retrieve the dats?

Comment by Guest, posted on Nov 26, 2008

my computer does not recognized my maxtor external hard drive. I cannot recover any data from it

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