I was using a WD external drive to hold a lot of my media content and it had been working fine for a few years, but the other day it stopped appearing in explorer as "My Passport" and now appears just as "Local Disk (E: )" When I try to access this, it tells me that I need to format the drive, which I'd rather not do if it means losing 10 years' worth of pictures/movies/songs/etc. I've been browsing possible solutions but to be perfectly honest I'm seeing a fair amount of confusing and conflicting information as to what to do. I have another EHD ready to go to move my stuff to if in fact the old EHD is unusable but I'm not sure how exactly to access the data on it. The old drive shows as healthy in disk management with a raw file system. I've downloaded pandora recovery but that's telling me that the "device is not ready" and I can't see any of the data on it.
If this is something I can take care of on my own, how can I go about it? If I format to access the drive, would I still be able to use the pandora software to recover my stuff? I was under the impression that formatting would erase it permanently. Or should I just break down and take the old EHD to a computer repair place or best buy and have them try to recover my data. Like I said, I'm really worried about losing a ton of pictures and movies of my kids growing up...
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
If this is something I can take care of on my own, how can I go about it? If I format to access the drive, would I still be able to use the pandora software to recover my stuff? I was under the impression that formatting would erase it permanently. Or should I just break down and take the old EHD to a computer repair place or best buy and have them try to recover my data. Like I said, I'm really worried about losing a ton of pictures and movies of my kids growing up...
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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