I have two 500g wd passport external diirves, just upgraded my desktop pc to windows 8 from windows 7 and now I cannot open either of them, I have data on both and dont want to loose it.
my windows 7 laptop can still see the drives just fine, with no problems scanned and defraged both drives with W7 NO PROBLEMS…
but windows 8 cant axcess the drives, it see’s them but cannot open either of them.
drives are NOT LOCKED.
I can open them in windows 7 and my xp computer that we use for our TV…
i would upload an image but it is exactly the same as the one uploaded by the first poster
i will be out of town for 2 weeks and my pc will be turned off I hope by that time some one can figure out why windows 8 is having so much problems with external drives…
