Western digital removable hard drive

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csasharon Posts 1 Registration date Monday January 5, 2015 Status Member Last seen January 5, 2015 - Jan 5, 2015 at 02:23 AM
Boogieman_WD Posts 275 Registration date Friday October 10, 2014 Status Member Last seen October 19, 2016   - Jan 5, 2015 at 02:40 AM
i have a WD hard drive

I just plugged into my office laptop today and i saw a message 'power surge xxx'

then i don't see any detection from my laptop of this drive.

i plugged it into my personal laptop

I didn;t see any dection from my laptop of this drive too.

i have a lot of data in my hard drive

anyone can advice me how i can retrieve my data so i can get a replacement of the hard drive.

very grateful to you all.
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Boogieman_WD Posts 275 Registration date Friday October 10, 2014 Status Member Last seen October 19, 2016   37
Jan 5, 2015 at 02:40 AM
Hey csasharon. I'm sorry to hear you have issues with your drive. Can you hear the drive spinning at all when you connect to the computer or any other indication that it is working? If you can, do you hear any unusual noises/sounds coming from the drive? When you say that it can't be detected what do you mean exactly - it's not detected in Windows Explorer, Device Manager, Disk Management, BIOS? Firs I'd recommend that you try the drive with a different USB cable (not longer than 12") because your might have become faulty. You could also try opening disk management to see if it is detected there, here's how to do that: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=ynvq85
You could also try some data recovery programs, to see if they can detect your drive and recover your data. Take a look at this thread: https://www.tomshardware.com/

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD

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