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WD1000eb035-01 not recognised on my WINDOWS 8 pc

Dear all, 

I have an external hard disk (WD1000eb035-01) that I tried to connect to my WINDOWS 8 pc, but it’s not recognised. I used to use it with my macbook. Is there any chance to see my files?

Tnx in advance!

Hi, if you had this hard drive formatted for Mac (HFS+), Windows computers wont be able to read the files natively, to use it on a Windows PC, you can format it (deletes all your files) or using a third party program to read the files. Using Google you should be able to find several options. For the steps to format the hard drive, check the following link. 

How to partition and format a WD drive on Windows (8, 7, Vista, XP) and Mac OSX 

thank you m8! of course I’ll try it and I’ll accept it!

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