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WD My Passport not Accessible

I’ve had My Passport for about 5 years and it has worked perfectly, up until a couple days ago… I backed everything up and updated everything a month or so ago and plugged it in the other day and an error message pops up “F:\ is not accessible. Access is denied”.
In Disk Management it shows the harddrive as healthy, with 628/931GB used so the data is still on there, I just can’t access it.
It’s formatted for NTFS. I ran a couple programs to try and recover the data but I’m not really getting anything back. It seems as though the partitions aren’t recognized…

Anyone have any ideas?
I just want to access the files so I can copy them off and then format the drive and start fresh.

Thanks.

Hello,

Sorry to hear that.

Have you tried contacting WD Support for direct assistance on this case? If not, please try that.

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