I borrowed a friends external HDD to transfer over the bulk of our files, earlier today, to get our computer ready for reformatting. It was just time for a spring clean. Anyways, due how hot it was here, I decided to stop where I was and turn the HDD off. I tried disconnect the drive, but it wouldn't stop it. I gave up and pulled the plug on it.
Later tonight we tried watching a movie off this same drive. We plugged it into our friends laptop, waited for it to appear in 'my computer' and opened it up. We found the movie we were after, it displayed the image and the vlc logo etc. We double-clicked it, it opened vlc but nothing showed. We gave it some time, but still nothing. The loading bar at the top of the screen was moving very slowly...so we still waited. No matter what we did, we could not get any file to open. Again we couldn't eject the HDD, so we restarted the computer this time. When trying to open it up this second time, it said there was a problem and gave us the option of proceeding without scanning or scanning and trying to fix the issue. My friend went with this second option. It got stuck half way through, and we eventually had to give up. We unplugged the HDD and tried inserting it again. This time it wouldn't show in 'my computer'. We tried it on our computer...same problem, it wouldn't show. We tried looking in 'device manager' in case it had no drive letter. It wasn't there, and we couldn't find any trace of it.
We moved it back to the laptop where this time the drive shows in 'my computer'. However, it does not appear as a normal HDD does (with a bar at the bottom showing how much space has been used etc). It simply says 'local disk (F
'. We can't open it either. We tried uninstalling it, with the hopes that when reconnected it would be accessible again. It didn't reinstall the drivers, and now nothing shows again.
It's a Western Digital Elements Desktop 2TB drive. Any ideas? We (stupidly) put a LOT of important data on there.
Later tonight we tried watching a movie off this same drive. We plugged it into our friends laptop, waited for it to appear in 'my computer' and opened it up. We found the movie we were after, it displayed the image and the vlc logo etc. We double-clicked it, it opened vlc but nothing showed. We gave it some time, but still nothing. The loading bar at the top of the screen was moving very slowly...so we still waited. No matter what we did, we could not get any file to open. Again we couldn't eject the HDD, so we restarted the computer this time. When trying to open it up this second time, it said there was a problem and gave us the option of proceeding without scanning or scanning and trying to fix the issue. My friend went with this second option. It got stuck half way through, and we eventually had to give up. We unplugged the HDD and tried inserting it again. This time it wouldn't show in 'my computer'. We tried it on our computer...same problem, it wouldn't show. We tried looking in 'device manager' in case it had no drive letter. It wasn't there, and we couldn't find any trace of it.
We moved it back to the laptop where this time the drive shows in 'my computer'. However, it does not appear as a normal HDD does (with a bar at the bottom showing how much space has been used etc). It simply says 'local disk (F
'. We can't open it either. We tried uninstalling it, with the hopes that when reconnected it would be accessible again. It didn't reinstall the drivers, and now nothing shows again.It's a Western Digital Elements Desktop 2TB drive. Any ideas? We (stupidly) put a LOT of important data on there.
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