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External Hard Drives Showing As: (J:) Error

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Ive been using my external hard drives for a while now with no problems, this morning I startup my computer and both of them are not working.

They show up as
(J:) Error
(K:) Error

Their both showing as empty
I tried restarting and everything, can someone please help me?
Thanks

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by robo_dev

Are they each plugged into their own USB port?

Have you tried them in a different USB port?

Do these drives each have their own power supply?

Can you hear the drive motors spinning?

by genghiscon

Yes to all those questions.

Ive tried different usb ports at the front and back of the computer. The drives are spinning and seem to be working fine.

by darryl~

And do they show up in Disk Management?

Have you tried assigning a different drive letter?

by genghiscon

They show up in disk management. I changed the letter on one of them and even unistalled the drive and reinstalled it and Im getting the same thing.

Havent tried them on a different computer yet, Ill go find somewhere where I can test it out

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