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Can"t acces to my Western Digital book external drive

Hello to the comunity att all , i have a issue ultimatly , i have a western digital external drive my book , i rescue all my data , but when i want to use my drive it says "“You need to format the disk in drive G:” i have tried with chkdsk and a lot off apps anda the issue persist , thanks for your help.

Hello, do you need to restore the information from the drive or you have your restored information on the drive? Have you tried connecting it with a different USB cable and on a different computer?

Hello , thanks for the answer, i have my restored information on my pc , i have tried connecting it on a different computer and the problem persist, i didn"t do with a different cable because i don"t have one.

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