I have an external HDD that up until yesterday wes working fine now my computer or tv cant see it the light on the HDD is ligh

paddyg123

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My external HDD cant be seen by my computer it was working perfect up until yesterday I have not dropped it or banked it off anything and i have tried it on my daughters laptop my own laptop and my tower desktop plus two tv and still no joy.As i have no way of opening my files on the HDD i cant run any malware or antivirus to see if thats the problem. I would greatly appreciate any help in fixing this problem or to hear from anybody with a similar problem.
Regards Paddy g
 

KILL-DE-KANGAROO

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Have you checked in device manager? It will show in the disk drives section, if it is there then the system detects it, there could just be a registery error, if it shows but has a yellow triangle next to it, double click it and see what the error code is, then report back. If it doesnt show, also let me know.