Problem with WD external drive on Win XP sp3

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orbitalld1p

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Hi everyone! I have a problem with my new WD a 1TB external HDD, model wdbuzg0010bbk-eesn.
When i first got it it was GPT and my Win XP could not see it so i converted it to MBR with AOMEI Partition Assistant and it worked, my windows was able to see the new drive and i could copy about 20GB of data on it.

Next session, i open my computer and windows will not see the external drive. I went in Device Manager and saw it was trying to install it as a Toshiba drive, for what reason i don't know. I opened AOMEI again and the program sees the HDD as MBR. As i have data on the drive atm, it would be best if any solutions would keep it safe :)

Any ideas on what i can do to be able to use my HDD on my ancient computer?

Thank you all!
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Are you sure the drive is good? Whatever people write about XP, I've never had a problem with external hard drives. But I did have a few issues with bad disks and enclosures and that might cause weird things to happen.

Anyway what I'd try:
- Unplug the drive
- Find a driver uninstallation program. There are a couple of those.
- Install a driver from the manufacturer (WD), then connect the drive (to one of the ports on the back of the PC if it's a desktop)

Also, is the drive properly formatted, preferably to NTFS? If you use a partitioning program such as Easeus Partition manager, what does that show?
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If that was an option, i would have made it already :) But thanks!
 
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Just tried it, same unfortunate result. :(
I also tried to rollback on the driver, but it says there is no previous driver.
I tried different usb ports, same result. Windows sees it as TOSHIBA RFBUS Driver and obviously it's faulty and not working. Why it tries to install a Bluetooth driver is beyond me :)
 
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Are you sure the drive is good? Whatever people write about XP, I've never had a problem with external hard drives. But I did have a few issues with bad disks and enclosures and that might cause weird things to happen.

Anyway what I'd try:
- Unplug the drive
- Find a driver uninstallation program. There are a couple of those.
- Install a driver from the manufacturer (WD), then connect the drive (to one of the ports on the back of the PC if it's a desktop)

Also, is the drive properly formatted, preferably to NTFS? If you use a partitioning program such as Easeus Partition manager, what does that show?
 
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