Windows 10: External HDD not responsive / Solution

Hi guys,

I don't know whether this is the correct place to communicate this like this but,

I keep a lot of really important business data on board a WD External HDD, and a couple days ago i FREAKED out to find it non responsive.

I plugged it in to the usb 3.0 port, it spinned and - nothing.
Gone through all ports - nothing!
Attached it to my Windows 10 tablet too in its 3.0 usb port - nothing!!

Man I could feel my feet go out on me literally. Sweating buckets!
So from, may god forgive me - all the swear words I did say and a couple of shutdowns, nothing really happened.
The drive just spinned and stopped.

I have no idea why this happened but - I hit restart and voila. All up and running again and working!

So guys, if you have SSDs and have turned on fastboot, remember a lot of your issues and nerves can be solved by a simple stupid restart.

I don't know why this happened. Happy like a little baby my stuff is secure.

I did get value out of this board - hope this helps some of you too.

:)

 

bitlocker encryption lost password and recovery key

Hi,

I lost my internal hdd including the password and recovery key of my external hdd. Now, I have a new windows10 with new internal hdd. But I can not open the external hdd with its BitLocker encryption. I forgot the password and the recovery key. I can still
remember an old password but not the last one. Is there any solution?

Thanks anyway.

 

Unable to create Back up Image

Thanks for your response.

I'm attempting to create the back up image on an identical (manufacturer and size) 1 TB external HDD.

 

Please get another usb-connecting external hard-drive, make full images of your WD data collection onto this 2nd hard-drive. Macrium Reflect will probably be best for this.

 

You can bet your life on that Ill do it *Smile

 

Interesting.
What a simple reboot could do.

 

Yes. I have no idea why that happened honestly.

Update : A sfc/scannow did find errors. Must be some update gone wrong or something.