Well this forum is very helpful… mind my sarcasm.
Anyways, I figured out how to make it work again by formatting the drive.
Simply:
( On a windows 7 )
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Control Panel / System Security / Adminstrative Tools / Computer Management
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Click on ‘disc management’ on the tab
[This part, my external drive showed up blank as shown in the picture in my original post]
- right click the blank drive and select “delete volume”
((( This will completely erase all your data )))
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Next go and rightclick at the botton the “bar” ( I believe it was black ) of your external drive
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Click “New Simple Volume”
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go through the process of assigning your drive, keeping the file system NTFS, allocation unit size default
Make sure the box for perform quick format is check. -
click next with the confirmation and it should be done
source: http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3865
