- Feb 25, 2015
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I have had a WD Elements external hdd for about 6 weeks.
Just last night I left it plugged into my Toshiba Laptop as I was transferring files overnight.
I'm running Windows 8.1.
When I woke up this morning and sat down at the computer and went to click on the files on the external hdd - all I got was a red popup saying device not ready.
I don't see how this could have happened but after unplugging, restarting, I even did a system restore to about a week ago to see if I lost files or something.
I'm at a loss and I just transferred a lot of data to this drive because another drive failed recently and I lost half the data.
Also a WD drive.
What's the deal?
Thanks,
Dave
Just last night I left it plugged into my Toshiba Laptop as I was transferring files overnight.
I'm running Windows 8.1.
When I woke up this morning and sat down at the computer and went to click on the files on the external hdd - all I got was a red popup saying device not ready.
I don't see how this could have happened but after unplugging, restarting, I even did a system restore to about a week ago to see if I lost files or something.
I'm at a loss and I just transferred a lot of data to this drive because another drive failed recently and I lost half the data.
Also a WD drive.
What's the deal?
Thanks,
Dave
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