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My drive is not being recognised and im not sure why up in till this point it has worked fine? It is a WD Essential Model - Wdbaaf0010hbk - 1TB drive it has alot of valuble information that i would hate to lose...

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When your external drive does not appear in "my computer" or not recognized in windows vista or windows 7, then just right click on my computer, click on manage, the go to disk management. Find your external drive there and right click on it, then select assign new drive letter. Select a letter from the midlle of the alphabet like m, then enter. The icon of your external drive should appear inside my computer

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