External Hard Drive not working

Jheff

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External Hard Drive not working Whenever I tried to open disk management in it takes a long time to open sometimes disk management not responding and if it loads (after a long while) External Hard drive shows there tried to assign diff drive letter it allows me too but when i tried to open it froze my computer tried to use data recovering softwares but it froze whenever external hard drive is plugged in even WD data lifeguard diagnostic froze when USB plugged in.. when i removed the external hard drive everything works fast.. disk management loads fast, data recovering software works fast even scanning my computer drives works fast without my external hard drive lugged in please help
 
You may be able to get it working by removing the actual hard drive from the WD enclosure and putting it in to a third-party enclosure.

If your drive is a WD Essential HDD and you have any data that you wish to recover, this will not work as the Essential HDDs have hardware encryption built into the enclosure. If you don't have any existing data to be concerned about then this is the best solution.

Yogi
 

Jheff

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My HDD is Western Digital and it is Enclosed on a third party Enclosure., imma try buying another Enclosure just like Mr. Philip says then post it if it works or not.,

Thanks for all the help i appreciate it