Recovering Western Digital Passport data.

[THarper58]

I need to recover my stuff from a Western Digital Passport and it is not showing up like it use to.
How do I do this without loosing my pictures, etc.

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey THarper58. I'm sorry to hear you're experiencing issues with your drive. First, I'd recommend that you open up Disk Management and see if the drive is recognized there, it might just need for you to assign it a new letter: How to change the drive letter assignment in Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP or 2000. If that doesn't help you could take a look at some of the data recovery solutions from this thread: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1644496/lost-data-recovery.html
You could also try to access the drive with Linux Live USB/CD to see if you can open it and retrieve the data.
There's always the option of a professional solution, such as a data recovery company: WD Data Recovery Partners, but before you go there, I'd recommend that you at least try the drive with another computer and a different USB cable (not longer than 12") to see if the same thing happens.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD