Drive visible but can't access

WD External and Portable SSD External SSD for Windows
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Mybook 320gb Premium, WDGIC3200E, Win XPpro.

This has run fine for 3 years now but suddenly lost its WD reference in “My Computer” and has just been given a standard drive reference of “I”. When opening, it shows as full, no space, no files yet there are over 22k photos on there visible with recovery software.

XP “System>Hardware” shows Buttons and Lights as missing a driver. Trying to reinstall the software or find a driver just doesn’t work. Any ideas anyone?

Thanks in advance.

Denis.

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If the drive shows used space but you can’t see it, then try a recovery software like TestDisk or Recuva, it sounds like dead sectors to me.

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So you think it’s the drive, not XP. I thought maybe if I could find the driver it might be OK, oh well…

While I say I can see it as a drive, I can’t see it as a WD drive as per previously.

I had no need to recover the software as this was one of a pair of backup discs but I did try it with PC Inspector, a free download and it recovered every single file with no problems. Took around 24 hours to do though!. Is there no way of getting it back to life then?

Den.

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I’ve seen Partition Find And Mount http://findandmount.com/  recommended by a couple of knowledgabel people on other forums.

Joe