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Drive does show up in the devices as you can see in the insterted image, also when ive checked on the drive for errors, the system confirms that it is working properly. My 1tb wd external hard drive is not working on my windows 10 pc and i can do nothing to the drive since it fails to show up in this pc. Computer wont recognize western digital mybook 1140 1tb. Wd my passport failure and fatal device hardware error.
Reboot the computer after uninstall process has finished. However, i believe the problem is that it has been formatted in ntfs partition filesystem which i suspect is the cause of it since the other 2 smaller usb drives successfully mounted automatically were in fat32 formatted. But, nothing ive tried has been working for my situation. Select the check box delete the driver software for this device. Once this has been done, plug it back in and start it up again, and hopefully the device will be working. Heat may be a factor too, maybe you can add another fan to the display card. Wd 1140 my book usb device will only show up as local disk.
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