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external hard drive not detected, not even in disk management, light on, noisy

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  • Storage
  • Disk Management
  • External Hard Drive
  • External USB
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June 16, 2014 12:32:17 AM

I bought this external hard drive three years back. It used to work fine. it was of 160 and almost full. I think only about 50 mb was free. One day when I attached it to my laptop a window appeared but I did not read the message. it was detected then. I saved some more files on it. the next time I attached it with the laptop, the window appeared again. I closed it again without reading the msg, but then the system did not detect it. Now whenever I connect it, the light gets on. the system doesnot detect it. it does not appear in disk manager as well. for a while it makes some noise but then no noise, and no detection. What to do? I have very important data on it. if the hard drive cant be used again, is there any way of retrieving the data??????

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June 16, 2014 12:51:56 AM

I think ur HDD has malware issue or upgrade ur driver... It is also possible that the msg was asking u to fix issues... U can connect it to another computer and perform a full scan..
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