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I have an WD external hard drive. it worked fine




By foster_chad2 on May 05, 2009

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i have an WD external hard drive. it worked fine for months. all of the sudden it wont come up when i look for it under my computer. i search and tried diffrent solutions everyone one suggested. like using tweak ui device manager by changing the mapped icon from e to z. i need help. i have about 200 plus gb of movies and music i do not want to lose. help!!!!!. can someone give me specific instructions.
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May 05, 2009

- im not really computer literate. please explain in steps if you can on how i can get this to work. other than that what is the best hard drive to buy on the market less than 200.00

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May 24, 2009

-   i have the same problem. It used to work fine on my mac now it doesnt recognize it at all. I ve ran disc utility and it wont let me repair it or werify it buy it does show the little icon. -   nativekeys

Solution #1

posted on May 05, 2009
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jeroencur

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Rating: 82%, 53 votes
Some times the enclosure of the harddisk is ad fault.Try to replace the enclosure.
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