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Passport Ultra 2tb Not showing up

My 2tb drive is not showing up in my cpu section anymore. It shows in the eject storage option at bottom screen. It says device is working properly when I click on devices and it shows this under properties of the drive. I have windows 8.1.

I use the external drive as my main storage. I have been using it with my laptop and it has mistakenly been taken out without choosing the eject option a few times. Yesterday the drive kept going in and out malfunctioning while still connected. Earlier today I was working in photoshop and photoshop froze also my web pages etc, So I ended up having to hard reboot. My drive has not shown up since then.

PLEASE HELP… I HAVE IMPORTANT FILES NEEDED FOR MY BUSINESS! Lights still work, There is no clicking sound, after 3-4 minutes connected it makes a beep sound. any suggestions? I don’t want to pay 1000 to retrieve from a professional. DOES ANYBODY KNOW DIY… can you send a link or instruct

Hello,

It seems the partition is corrupted. It may be possible to still extract the data utilizing data recovery software. There are several kinds of Data Recovery software available. If you do a web search for Data Recovery it will yield plenty of data recovery software options.

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