Yes I know there are a ton of posts on this, and I wish I had read the forums before I bought the drive,
I got this drive within the last 90 days, a My Book Essential USB3 external drive
It worked very well for a while, and I used it as my primary backup source
Suddenly the other day, windows doesn’t see the drive (windows 7 64bit)
When trying to load the drive it “Doesn’t load properly” or can’t find the driver, or something,
I went to this forum and followed the steps, plugged it into a wall outlet,
This, connected the drive once again, kind of
when it says “installing drivers”… it says its ready to go
but then the drive is nowhere to be found, I went into disk managment and it says its not initialized, but it won’t let me initialize it,
Can’t access my data, which is very important,
I tried a few data recovery programs - but they don’t see the drive either
So what is my next step, I’m not willing to RMA it until I get my data back, thats for sure,
Please help!.. Thank you
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