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Hi,

I have a slim WD MyPassport 2TB USB 3.0 hard drive. I had it for like 2 months when all of a sudden I connected it to my laptop, and it doesn't work anymore. The drive lights up and spins as usual. When I first connect it, it will take 2 minutes to show up in my computer but I cannot access it, run checkdisk on it, do right-click on it, open disk management, and no recovery software can see it. Any of those actions will freeze and go into an infinite cycle.

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Any help how i might pull data from it?

Thx

Bumferry H
2014-01-14 09:28:57
I had a similar experience a couple of weeks ago. I managed to recover the data on the disk by following the instructions from here - http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Cyclic-Redundancy-Check-ErrorNot sure if it is the same problem as you had but it worked for me and the drive now works fine! Good luck.
Rabih H
2014-01-07 10:58:49
Already tried 3 different PCs...
Hovsep A
2014-01-08 08:02:36
if you are able to show up in my computer then Try TestDiskhttp://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step
Hovsep A
2014-01-07 09:11:18
can you try on another pc?