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- MY EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE IS NOT WORKING ANYMORE PC
- MY EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE IS NOT WORKING ANYMORE PS3
- MY EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE IS NOT WORKING ANYMORE WINDOWS
There you should see your USB drive listed. The easiest way to do this is to right click on MY COMPUTER and go to MANAGE.
MY EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE IS NOT WORKING ANYMORE WINDOWS
You have to tell windows to give your external device another drive letter. When that happens, the internal drive takes precedence. For people that plug a USB drive in and it looks good in device manager but just doesn't have a drive letter, sometimes windows tries to give your external device the same drive letter as something else (like a CDROM or another internal drive).
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If it will load on another computer, you may want to go ahead and start getting files backed up from it while its not too late.Īlso, I do not think this applies to you based on what you have described, but I noticed a few other posts here and this may help them. If your drive fails to load in ANY computer then I would consider a replacement.
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MY EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE IS NOT WORKING ANYMORE PS3
Since the PS3 and 360 could not run a scandisk or repair or anything, maybe thats why the drive appears to mount, where windows may be trying to figure out whats wrong with it and fix the problem during mounting. It could be that if it is having mechanical failures, the PS3 and 360 are somehow mounting it differently or in a way that it would only experience problems if it ran across a file sitting on a bad sector or something. You say you have a WD hard drive? What model is it? Is it a true external drive or just some IDE internal drive that you have connected to a USB bay or adapter? Is the drive still under warranty? Did it get dropped or fall or anything when you had it connected to the 360 / PS3? Sometimes I have left a drive plugged in for hours and windows finally unfreezes and it attempts to mount the drive, but usually it doesn't matter much when they get that far off. Exclamation points in device manager, or unrecognized usb puter freezing until the device is disconnected.
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More often than not, when the hard drives are starting to have a mechanical failure, when they are plugged into the USB port they act exactly as you are describing.
MY EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE IS NOT WORKING ANYMORE PC
You said the whole computer is freezing when you plug it into the USB? I have worked with many internal HD's (I am a PC repair tech) and sometimes I will often plug the internal drive into a USB adapter so that I can attempt to backup data for people when we know the drives are failing. BTW dont know how this works when you have no clue what the drive letter is, I was lucky to see this still in my disk manager.ĭid you say whether or not you have tried your external drive on another computer? If so, does it do the same thing on the other computers as it is now doing on yours, or does it work on other computers right now? Hope this works for more of you with the same problem as me. Took me about 4 hours to check the total drive! But in the end it worked again properly!! Also it looked to me in the beginning of the scan nothing was going on, but after a minute or 2 it sayed THE DRIVE FORMAT IS NTFS.or something like that and from then it starts scanning for a long time. Then it will start checking your drive, be patient here because it can take a long long time for this to finish.type in chkdsk #: /R (where you should put drive letter in place of #).What they say is let the drive be checked and repaired by chkdsk: Luckily I saw that my data wasn't lost, because when I plugged the external hard drive in a Macbook Pro, it showed up right away! And I could acces all the files and copy them without any problems!īut then I came across another forum with my solution but it was in Dutch. Tried everything mentioned on this forum like changing drive letters and disabling in device manager, but nothing seemed to work. I had the same problem like many as you, Maxtor 3200 looked like it crashed, it wouldn't show up in My Computer anymore and it would freeze up any pc (tried 3 different ones) as soon as it got plugged in.