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Hello everyone

 

I was doing a defrag in Defraggler then my WD green all of a sudden disappeared from windows explorer, so I turned off my computer to check all the cables.

 

After unplugging and plugging the cables for all my hard drives and SSD I turned my computer back on and my WD Green still was not in Diskpart, Create and Format Disk Partitions, or windows explorer.

 

I felt the drive and it is definitely spinning up.

Is there anything I can do or is the drive dead?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Hey there ddswh1pk0s,
 
When you have a problem recognizing a drive you should always check if it's recognized properly (model and size) in BIOS, Device Manager and Disk Management. You should also check the health of the drive with a diagnostic tool provided by the manufacturer (for the WD Green that would be WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=E8JZmR ). :)
I'm glad you got it resolved!
 
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Hello everyone

 

I was doing a defrag in Defraggler then my WD green all of a sudden disappeared from windows explorer, so I turned off my computer to check all the cables.

 

After unplugging and plugging the cables for all my hard drives and SSD I turned my computer back on and my WD Green still was not in Diskpart, Create and Format Disk Partitions, or windows explorer.

 

I felt the drive and it is definitely spinning up.

Is there anything I can do or is the drive dead?

 

Thanks in advance

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Hello everyone

 

I was doing a defrag in Defraggler then my WD green all of a sudden disappeared from windows explorer, so I turned off my computer to check all the cables.

 

After unplugging and plugging the cables for all my hard drives and SSD I turned my computer back on and my WD Green still was not in Diskpart, Create and Format Disk Partitions, or windows explorer.

 

I felt the drive and it is definitely spinning up.

Is there anything I can do or is the drive dead?

 

Thanks in advance

If you have access to Linux (making a bootable live usb is easy), try that. I often find that Linux finds drives where Windows can't.

 
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After unplugging and plugging the cables for all my hard drives and SSD I turned my computer back on and my WD Green still was not in Diskpart, Create and Format Disk Partitions, or windows explorer.

I felt the drive and it is definitely spinning up

 

Probably a problem with the logic board. Your data is most likely still on the drive. Get in contact with WD and see what they'll do.

 

Why use defraggler? I always use the stock disk defragmenter

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FUCKING WINDOWS 10 LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

RESTARTED MY COMPUTER "INSTALLING UPDATES". THEN COMPUTER RESTARTED AGAIN AND THE FUCKING THING WAS THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Problem solved, sorry not sorry for caps and swearing LOL :D :D :D :D :D

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FUCKING WINDOWS 10 LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

RESTARTED MY COMPUTER "INSTALLING UPDATES". THEN COMPUTER RESTARTED AGAIN AND THE FUCKING THING WAS THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Problem solved, sorry not sorry for caps and swearing LOL :D :D :D :D :D

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Hello everyone

 

I was doing a defrag in Defraggler then my WD green all of a sudden disappeared from windows explorer, so I turned off my computer to check all the cables.

 

After unplugging and plugging the cables for all my hard drives and SSD I turned my computer back on and my WD Green still was not in Diskpart, Create and Format Disk Partitions, or windows explorer.

 

I felt the drive and it is definitely spinning up.

Is there anything I can do or is the drive dead?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Hey there ddswh1pk0s,
 
When you have a problem recognizing a drive you should always check if it's recognized properly (model and size) in BIOS, Device Manager and Disk Management. You should also check the health of the drive with a diagnostic tool provided by the manufacturer (for the WD Green that would be WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=E8JZmR ). :)
I'm glad you got it resolved!
 
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