pc cant access Ext Hard Drive (HELP!!) (Solved)

[chin chin]

sorry if i come of as a bit of a dumb ass.

my pc cant access my ext hard drive. it detects it on disk manager and pretty much says thats its fine. infact, when i plug it into my phone or my tv, it detecs and is able to access it as per usual. but when i try to access it through my windows pc, it straights up doesnt want to access it.

 

i actually have the same problem that this thread had,

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3413918/access-external-drive.html

and i tried every reccomended step, but i still cant access it through my pc. 

 

Back story: it stopped giving me access through my pc after i pluged it into my tv, so i already tried deleting all the weird files which tv's put in the drive when you plug it, but i still cant access it through my pc.

 

here is what the drive appears as in 'This PC' in the drives and devices section. Its Drive A:

 

hopefully i dont need to format the drive as i have a bunch of media that would be a pain in the ass to download all over again.

 

 

 

Edit: so i managed to solve the isssue. im gonna leave how i did it just in case some else has this same exact problem.

The user authentication for the drive was deleted.

https://www.stellarinfo.com/blog/fix-inaccessible-hard-drives-and-recover-data/

here is the guide i followed

 

once you fixed it, i reccomend backing up the files in your hard drive and formating it just in case

[emosun]

try changing the letter off of A

[chin chin]

Just now, emosun said:

try changing the letter off of A

i actually already tried that, changed it from E: to A:, clearly didnt work.

[kelvinhall05]

You might need to initialize it in disk manager or something like that.