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My WD Passport external harddrive won't detect!
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 860869" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>The drive may be defective. Even if it's unplugged without ejecting it first, the drive should still show up in Disk Utility. Unplugging a drive or turning it off without ejecting can and will cause a loss of data especially if the drive was being written to at the time. However, that generally won't effect the mechanics or logic of the drive.</p><p></p><p>You can give Data Rescue II a try and see if you can access your data that way, but there are no guarantees that it will work. And the program is a bit pricey at $99 US.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php" target="_blank">Link</a></p><p></p><p>Regards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 860869, member: 46727"] The drive may be defective. Even if it's unplugged without ejecting it first, the drive should still show up in Disk Utility. Unplugging a drive or turning it off without ejecting can and will cause a loss of data especially if the drive was being written to at the time. However, that generally won't effect the mechanics or logic of the drive. You can give Data Rescue II a try and see if you can access your data that way, but there are no guarantees that it will work. And the program is a bit pricey at $99 US. [URL="http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php"]Link[/URL] Regards. [/QUOTE]
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