Hi mate i have a wd passport hd, and i took it out when my computer wa restarting. and now my computer and any other computer dont read it it say reformat. it has very importent files on how can i retrive them

Here is a 10 day free trial of a software recovery program that can be burned to a disk. You would then boot from that disk with your external drive plugged in, and after it loads the software, tell it to find all available files. When you find your files, copy them to your regular hard drive and reformat the external. Copy the files back to your external drive. Hope that helps some.


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Was it a mac or pc machine you removed this device from? unplugging the usb storage device from the machine while powered can cause some form of corruption or worse head fault.

Don't format the drive, otherwise it'll wipe your data, data will still be recovered but it may cause some corruption as well if you do format it before recovering data.

You can use freeware recovery software for this. Download recuva and install in your machine. or Disk Drill for mac.

Once you've installed these software, plug in the external drive and let the machine recognize it. Once recognized fire up the recovery software you just installed and choose the correct device on the list. The software is pretty easy to use and you should find your way through it easily.

hope this helps.