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August 12, 2008 at 01:23 PM
japanto01

Help With Western Digital External Hard Drive

by japanto01 . Updated 17 years, 11 months ago

I have a WD Essential Edition 500GB External Hard drive. (USB connected)

I have Windows XP.

It worked fine for a while at first, but suddenly it says that there is a USB drive instead my actual drive..

I tried to manually install it by going through the Western Digital section when i was manually installing it..

I thought it worked when it said it found a new harddrive

“WD External USB drive”

But it doesnt show up on my computer, it doesnt show up on Disk Management.

I have another WD harddrive and it shows up clearly as “WD 5000KS external USB drive”

I have uninstalled it and tried reinstalling, but it keeps on reinstalling automatically as
“WD External USB drive”

anyone know any way to help me so i can open my files?

Thanks

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