I have a problem with my WD 500gb external hard drive. The last time I plugged it into my laptop it couldn't be found. I took it into a computer repair shop but they couldn't open it either so I decided to do some investigation and see if I could come up with a solution.
I found on another forum that if you could see the external hard drive in Disk Management, which I can, but not in Computer, to use testdisk. I followed the instructions and am now in the middle of a test
http://forum.cgsecurity.org/phpBB3/ucp. ... 0&k=DWZ92D
The thing I'm not sure about is what to do with the test results or how they will help me open the drive.
Can anyone advise?
Not sure what to do next
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