External Hard Drive Windows (WD 2TB) was plugged into a mac

sailalaya

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I accidentally plugged a WD 2 TB USB hard drive into my new macbook pro. Now the drive only shows up in device manager with no volume identified. Is there a way to correct the problem or recover the data?
 
May just need a drive letter assigning to it.

Control Panel > Admin Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management
In the bottom-right panel, find the ribbon relating to that drive (may say "Raw" on the ribbon).

Right-click, choose "Change Drive Letter & Paths".
Click "Add".
Accept the default letter and click "OK".
 

sailalaya

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I tried you solution but the drive does not show up. It only shows up in device manager.


 

sailalaya

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Never worked in the Mac. And never reformatted. I realized my mistake and moved it back to the PC but it has not worked since.