ALL OF A SUDDEN MY EXTERNAL hd ISN'T SHOWING UP ON MY PC

[Richie7424]

what can i do to get my external hd to show up on my pu? it was working fine 3 days ago from today? this is my second one the first did the same exact thing so i bought another on. i have very important sruff on this hd.

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[cbrunnem]

dont post your email.

try turning it on then back off. mine was doing that once and i restarted it and it worked. i then copied everything off of it to another hard drive and reformatted it because the problem was persistent. make sure you have your data backed up.

 

[jsc]

First, make sure that it is your drive by trying it in another system.