I've got a Western Digital external HDD 1021. I used it on an XP computer for a year or two before I purchased my current Dell Inspiron M5110 laptop with Windows 7 installed. I've had the laptop about two years now and I've been using the external drive as needed, plugging and unplugging on a regular basis.
Last week, I plugged in the drive and my computer did not recognize it. The HD hums and the light is on (not blinking), but I can only see it in Disk Management. I've tried it on other computers (an XP and a Windows 8) and with another USB cord. Neither attempt makes a difference. I can see it in Disk Management as "Disk 1: Basic: 1863.01 GB: Online; Unallocated," but it's not listed as a disk on the volume above, which means I can't assign it a letter in the traditional way. It was previously assigned as "D" drive, but cmd won't recognize it, so I assume it has lost that designation. I could format the drive to get my space back, but I've got about 1 TB of data on the drive and would prefer not to lose it all.
When the drive first started giving me problems, three or four days before it quit, a run through cmd: chkdsk /f would solve my problem. Now cmd doesn't recognize the drive. I uninstalled and reinstalled the driver, but that didn't help either. I've exhausted my knowledge on the troubleshooting front. Any help or suggestions y'all have would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Last week, I plugged in the drive and my computer did not recognize it. The HD hums and the light is on (not blinking), but I can only see it in Disk Management. I've tried it on other computers (an XP and a Windows 8) and with another USB cord. Neither attempt makes a difference. I can see it in Disk Management as "Disk 1: Basic: 1863.01 GB: Online; Unallocated," but it's not listed as a disk on the volume above, which means I can't assign it a letter in the traditional way. It was previously assigned as "D" drive, but cmd won't recognize it, so I assume it has lost that designation. I could format the drive to get my space back, but I've got about 1 TB of data on the drive and would prefer not to lose it all.
When the drive first started giving me problems, three or four days before it quit, a run through cmd: chkdsk /f would solve my problem. Now cmd doesn't recognize the drive. I uninstalled and reinstalled the driver, but that didn't help either. I've exhausted my knowledge on the troubleshooting front. Any help or suggestions y'all have would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
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