Western Digital external hard drive problem

[LookinAround]

I had the same issue and solved it by downloading and running partition table doctor. It said it was a MBR problem and it fixed it

Thanks much for that advice. Will have to try the tool as well.

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btw... did you use the free version? or the purchased version?

 

[majikstranger]

i used the purchased version

 

[LookinAround]

oh. and one additional question: was your drive formatted FAT32? NTFS? other? when you had the problem