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Computer Help and Support

canetoad

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9. Try this first

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Sat Oct 28, 2017, 02:28 PM

Oct 2017

Partition Find and Mount (free) http://findandmount.com/

Then this: Unknown Devices (free) http://www.halfdone.com/

The above may give you some clue to what is going on.

My experience with external drives over the years is not good. It's not the drive itself that goes bad but the electronics in the enclosure. I ususally purchase a good quality empty HDD enclosure (last one was about $40), pull the drive out of the bad one and install in the new.

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WD My Passport issue [View all] SHRED Oct 2017 OP

well, essentially there are only two makers of hard drives lapfog_1 Oct 2017 #1

thanks SHRED Oct 2017 #3

no... right now the drive is dead lapfog_1 Oct 2017 #4

It's the pictures SHRED Oct 2017 #5

Pictures from where? lapfog_1 Oct 2017 #6

good ideas SHRED Oct 2017 #7

I think it's a goner SHRED Oct 2017 #8

no it's not "gone", What they will do is lapfog_1 Oct 2017 #10

Time for Cloud backup Abnredleg Oct 2017 #2

Try this first canetoad Oct 2017 #9

If Device Manager sees the hardware Sailor65x1 Oct 2017 #11

Before giving up on it, try a different cable and USB port. Thor_MN Oct 2017 #12

what light is blinking? you mean the green 'power' light blinks? Sunlei Oct 2017 #13