If your PC will recognize the drive and give it a drive letter, you can run
chkdsk (Check Disk) from the Run prompt to verify that the drive does not have damaged sectors. many times
chkdsk will fix minor errors allowing you to access the drive again.
Click Start, Run CMD, enter, then type: X: (X being the drive letter of the Seagate) then type
chkdsk /r and hit enter. If it completes 100% try accessing the drive again.
If you cannot
acquire a drive Letter when you plug in the
WD External try going to Disk Management and assigning a drive letter.
Click Start, then Right click on My
Computer and click Manage, then click Disk Management. See if your
WD drive shows up in the list. If it does, right click on the larger box on the right and see if it will allow you to assign a drive letter.
Another option you may have is taking the hard drive out of the WD External enclosure and either connecting it as a secondary drive in a
desktop PC, or installing it into another external enclsure USB device, and try again to access the drive.
If none of these options work, your last option is to contract a Disk Recovery Service to acquire your data. They are usually very expensive.
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