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Portable external hard drive not showing up in device manager

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mkumar185 Posts 1 Registration date Tuesday November 26, 2013 Status Member Last seen November 26, 2013 - Nov 26, 2013 at 11:18 PM
xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 - Nov 27, 2013 at 12:41 AM
Hi All,
I have wd external portable hard drive.

Yesterday some how my portable external hard drive started showing up like regular drive with G letter instead of its its name with assigned letter M. i was getting message like format disk . So i tried to disable and enable it from device manager. after i disable it from device manager, WD not showing up in device manager at all. I am not enable it back. I also checked in computer management window but its not showing up there too.

I see that Hard drive light stopped blinking and its steady now. It was blinking as soon as i connect it to PC.

Can anyone please suggest me how can i get my data? i need some data urgently from my hard drive.

Note: WD Hard drive is making some click click noise.

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xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,824
Nov 27, 2013 at 12:41 AM
Sorry. This sounds like you have the "click of death". Probably no way to recover your data.

Good Luck
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