I had the internal hard drive in my HPTouchSmart 600 (Windsows 7 64bit) replaced. When I got it home, I plugged in my WD 2 TB external hard drive. It worked fine. Within the next 24 hrs something happened. The drive no longer shows up in 'Computer'.
The Drive shows up in the Device Manager as:
- WD My Book 1140 USB Device
In Device Properties on the Volumes Tab:
- Disk: Disk1
- Type: Unknown
- Status: Not Initialized
- Partition Style: Not Applicable
- Capacity: 1907697 MB
- Unallocated Space: 0 MB
- Reserved Space: 0 MB
When I open the Disk Manager, I receive the following Pop-Up:
You must initialize a disk before Logical Disk Manager can access it.
Select Disks:
[] Disk 1
Use the following partition style for the selected disks:
() MBR(Master Boot Record)
() GPT (GUID Partition Table)
Note: The GPT partition style is not recognized by all previous versions of Windows....
[OK] [Cancel]
This disk contains several hundred movies which would take significant amount of time to re-burn. I tried the External drive on my laptop and it no longer shows up there either. Is my data gone?
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