I had worked on my laptop last night and this morning my laptop is no longer recognizing my external HD. I have gone under the Device Manager and the Devices/Printers and it is shown in the list. However when I go to Disk Management it says that it needs to be initialized and its space is unallocated and not being recognized as the E: drive I assigned it on my desktop. I have about 700GB of backed up data saved on it and cant afford to lose it.
I’ve tried uninstalling the drivers and switching USB ports but still not being recognized. The external is still making noises like it would if it was being accessed. I do have a desktop computer that is currently packed,(In the middle of moving) would that also be unable to access the external? Both of my machines are running Windows 10