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Fix WD My Passport External Hard Drive Not Showing Up ErrorĬheck the state of your not showing up or not detected WD My Passport Ultra external hard drive and refer to the right fix to make your drive work normally again. Step 2. In Disk Management, locate and check the state of your WD external hard drive. Step 1. Press Windows + R keys, type diskmgmt.msc in the Run box, and click "OK". Follow steps here to check the state of your WD external hard drive in Disk Management: Check The State of WD External Hard Disk in Disk ManagementĬonnect the WD external hard drive to your computer via the USB cable.

So how to fix these errors and make your WD Passport Ultra external hard drive show up on PC again? Follow through the tutorials below to get rid of this issue immediately. I know the end result boils down to “send it to a data recovery plant”, but I really wish to try all avenues and exhaust all troubleshooting attempts before I reach that bottom line.WD External Disk Not Recognized Hard Drive Not Showing Up SSD Not Showing Any advice/help/tricks/"try this out"s/remedies/solutions would be greatly appreciated. I can still access it (kind of), as in I can still see it.

This has the signs of a failing drive… but I just don’t know. If this infinite-loading issue is happening, I can open, say, Firefox and surf the web, no issues. It’s as though the HDD itself is slowing down my Windows processes. If I open a new window up (like, if I try to access My Pictures from my Start menu), it just shows loading/working symbology. Example: if I plug the drive in, go to My Computer, doubkle-click the drive, then try to open My Documents, all I see is Loading bars/hourglasses all over the wondow. Also, oddly enough: when I try to access the drive or do anything to the drive via my browser, everything Windows-related is slowed down. Sometimes when I plug he drive in and try to access it, then remove it later (after if again doesn’t load), I get the “This drive needs to be formatted” message, even though the drive has already been reved.

tried accessing the drive when my PC was booted in safe mode (not sure what I thought this would help/change, but I tried it anyway).tried to access in WD Security software.tried different systems (on my PC and on my laptop).Some minor things I have tried, on my end: I cannot access it in Computer Management, nor would it show up in the “WD Security” software. I’ve left it in this state overnight, and nothing loads/shows.

If I double-click the drive’s icon, the green Loading bar in my browser’s address bar begins to fill (as though it was loading), but even when that bar fills, nothing happens. When plugged in, I (sometimes) can see the drive on the My Computer screen (though it says “Local Disk (F:)” instead of what I’ve named it). I’ve discovered recently that I cannot access the data stored on my drive.