My WD Elements 1042 1TB Portable Hard Drive USB not recognised by Windows on two PCs

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Hello,

Another user was experiencing a similar issue.

See if the following link helps

http://community.wd.com/t5/Desktop-Mobile-Drives/S-M-A-R-T-Status-Bad-RE4/td-p/189736