HD problem

WD External Drives External Drives for PC
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Hi,

I have one 2 TB WD external HD that is connected to one HP notebook and this HD has been used for around 1 year. In these 2 days, I just could not see its contents from the notebook while I can still see such HD is “D” drive that is with 271 GB space. If I shut down the machine and then restart it, then I can see the HD’s contents. What is the problem?

Here is what I can see on it.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40211031/t301.png

Many Thanks & Best Regards,
HuaMin

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Hello,

Have you try connecting the drive into another computer? How about a different USB cable?

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The question is: why does this issue just sometimes happen?

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Try going into Device Manager and delete the driver for the drive disconnect it and reboot then reconnect the drive. That should load a fresh driver. If the driver got corrupt it can do strange things.

Joe

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Thanks a lot to you all.

Joe,

Where is Device manager in Win 7? How to also resolve this against that WD external HD?

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Dear all,
Any help to this?

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could be bad sectors, time to backup all your stuff before drive stops getting recognized for good

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Thanks HDDRS.

But I do not get any bad sectors reported on the check report. Please advise

D:>chkdsk d:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is My Book.

WARNING!  F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)…
  959424 file records processed.
File verification completed.
  1936 large file records processed.
  0 bad file records processed.
  0 EA records processed.
  0 reparse records processed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)…
  979046 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
  0 unindexed files scanned.
  0 unindexed files recovered.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)…
  959424 file SDs/SIDs processed.
Security descriptor verification completed.
  9812 data files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal…
  8697912 USN bytes processed.
Usn Journal verification completed.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

1953480703 KB total disk space.
1674320564 KB in 39055 files.
     15956 KB in 9813 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
   1093915 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
 278050268 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
 488370175 total allocation units on disk.
  69512567 allocation units available on disk.

Joe,

Do you think the way to delete the driver can help on this?

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Dear all,
Any help to this?