External hard drive not showing in my computer

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rohanmantri

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- Jul 4, 2017 at 08:55 AM
xpcman

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- Jul 14, 2017 at 02:31 PM

Hi all
My external 2 tb wd hard drive not showing in my computer . And when i go to disk management its not functioning at all its just showing read only
My external hard drive also showing unallocated and not intialized in disk management i tried mini portialize tool but it doesnt work ..need help a lot of important data in it ...??

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xpcman

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Jul 14, 2017 at 02:31 PM

This is a common problem with external drives. Most often cause by physical damage to the drive.

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