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WD 4TB MY BOOK Blinking white light and not recognized by my Windows 7 laptop

I’m not too tech savvy, but my Western Digital My Book all of a sudden stopped working. I was transferring files and a window popped up saying that the destination folder doesn’t exist. 

Now I have an external drive that just flashed a white light every second when plugged in. I did all of the obvious stuff like replace the USB cables and the AC Adapter. I tried it on two computers with similar results. Please help. I have over 3TB of files on this and I can’t replace it. 

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I’m sorry to read that you are unable to access the hard drive. We have forwarded this along to support, please check your private messages.

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