Windows 10: Cannot see my ext WD 2 TB HDD

Discus and support Cannot see my ext WD 2 TB HDD in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; Ran into this problem transferring media files from my laptop to the WD ext hdd. Both USB 3. "My Book", my 2 TB WD ext HDD I cannot be seen on my... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by Goodgenie4u, Oct 3, 2015.

  1. Cannot see my ext WD 2 TB HDD


    Ran into this problem transferring media files from my laptop to the WD ext hdd. Both USB 3.
    "My Book", my 2 TB WD ext HDD I cannot be seen on my laptop nor my media mini pc
    I found it in Disk Management. It is shown as Disk 2. It has a black streak all the way (full?) It has excess of I,8 TB used and indicates that it is unitialized.


    I have attached a snipper capture of the disk management page.

    How do I get the ext HDD to function without losing all my media? I am not technically savvy, but can follow step by step advice.

    Thanks

    :)
     
    Goodgenie4u, Oct 3, 2015
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  2. SniperX2 Win User

    Windows 10 is killing my Western Digital hard drives

    Thank you Captain_WD

    Today, I looked upon the 'event viewer' and found there had been no disk error for my newly purchased WD Black 1 TB HDD (internal). The WD Black had been intermittently failing when I tested it with HDD SCAN or WD DataLifeGuard Diagnostics v1.29 (most recent
    version). After I made a clean installation of Windows 10, 1 year anniversary edition and installed the recent southbridge driver for AMD platform, my WD Black 1 TB has been perfect in usage and on HDD tests.

    I hope Microsoft may help those users with a definite update..!!
     
    SniperX2, Oct 3, 2015
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  3. Detlef-S Win User
    External USB 3.0 HDD's not accesible after Windows 10 Anniversary Update

    I encountered the same problem with all my 2 external HDDs (Seagate and WD 2 TB) unaccessable.

    I can find them in the drive-management as raw format.

    After restoring the old Windows 10 Pro Version, it was all good again.

    But today the anniversary update suddenly started again ....

    Please Microsoft, FIX THAT PROBLEM!

    I won't and I can't backup 4 TB of data.
     
    Detlef-S, Oct 3, 2015
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