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Asked: 2021-10-24T05:46:08+00:00 In:

Solved WD My Passport USB External HDD Now Shows Up As Local Disk

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WD my passport external hdd now shows up as local disk, says that it works properly but i can not have access to it. Please help me. I made a backup of my laptop on it. I redid my laptop. Now I need to recover data

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      As I said….

      “A partition being labelled Local Disk doesn’t indicate a problem, unless it had a different label previously because a volume label had been assigned to it and you haven’t deleted that. “

      You haven’t said whether it had a different volume label previously.
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      It’s probable that the person you lent it to unplugged it while Windows was running, without clicking on the Safely Remove Hardware icon and choosing to STOP accessing the drive, and because of that, the the partition table data was damaged on it. In that case, Windows often “thinks” the drive is not formatted and in Dik Mangement the space on the drive is seen as RAW – unallocated.

      Recuva is just one of the data recovery programs you can try to fix the partition table damage.
      Once that damage has been fixed, you will probably be able to access all of or most of the data on the external drive that you could access previously.

      Try various data recovery programs that can fix partition table damage. A program meant specfically only for un-deleting files will NOT work because of the partition table damage.

      The one thing you should NOT do if you want to recover your data is to delete the partition (s) on the external hard drive and make (a) new one(s). There are un-delete or un-format programs that can reverse that , but they’re meant to be used when there was nothing wrong with the partition table’s data – you probably would NOT be able to recover as much or maybe NO data because of the partition table damage.

      Troubleshooting USB device problems including for flash drives, external drives, memory cards.
      See Response 1:
      https://computing.net/answers/ha…

      In that – other data recovery programs you could try – response 2 here:
      https://computing.net/answers/ha…

      I haven’t needed to use any data recovery program to fix partition table damage on a removable drive caused by unplugging the drive at the wrong time, so I have no experience with using them.
      Others who answer here reguarly may have had experience with those or may be able to suggest other programs.

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