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HELP! WD Elements 1.5 TB DESKTOP appear and disappear every one second in Explorer

This must be a cruel joke. After using this drive for a while, this drive now suddenly decided to behave this way, it will appear on File Explorer for one second then suddenly disappear again, then reappear one second after that, and this process just keep repeating until I disconnect the data and power cable.

Any idea what could cause this strange problem? This happended with this drive when I first bought it, only to have it failed this way, and after that I reformatted the drive and it works for for 2 years again, but suddenly just out of nowhere it stopped working this way.

Hi, have you tried using another USB cable or another USB port? If possible you can also try connecting the Elements to another PC. 

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