I bought this 1TB WD My Passport USB hard drive not so long ago. After only a month of use on my laptop(Dell Vostro 1500 with Win7 Home 64-bit), it suddenly stopped showing up in My Computer. It is still there in Device Manager as “WD My Passport 0740 USB Device” under Disk Drives and it also…

Please help to fix Western Digital external Hard drive problem!

shrestha_asis June 18, 2013, 5:48pm 6

to recover data first the portable harddisk should be read by my laptop but it cannot be read.