I have a 3Tb WD My Book Essentials USB hard drive which is suddenly not being recognised by Windows Explorer in Windows 8. It does show up in Disk Management as Disk 1 but doesn't have a drive letter assigned. All options include add a drive letter are greyed out. Only the properties of the drive can be selected. When I try to select the drive, Windows 8 tells me that I must initialise the disk. I have over 2 Tb of data on that drive I don't want to lose and can't back up. Have removed it from its case and put the drive into a usb dock but it still isn't getting recognise by the system. Can anyone help please?
USB drive not recognised by Windows Explorer
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siddharthmukul007
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go to properties from disk management and update the drivers.
did you try our your drive in another pc???
did you try our your drive in another pc???
Have tried updating the drivers. Didn't work. Also checked it out on a separate PC. No change. Just noticed that when I open disk management, the Initialise Disk error window that gets thrown up tells me the GPT partition style is not recognised by all previous versions of windows .... ??
siddharthmukul007
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you have a corrupted file system in your disk....it is really hard to repair the damage.
you still can try with (not 100% sure though it will work):
http://www.filehippo.com/download_easeus_partition_master_home/download/74d8306ff395e5854aa7cc8d4ba4920f/
you still can try with (not 100% sure though it will work):
http://www.filehippo.com/download_easeus_partition_master_home/download/74d8306ff395e5854aa7cc8d4ba4920f/
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