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    My Portable HDD started changing drives and now "not" detected, how whould I be able to...


    I use my external HDD as a permanent HDD to my PC, This worked for years, but for a few days it kept changing paths, so I had to change it every time, currently it is "not" detected, it now and then appears on my diskmanager, but does not want to be initialize, saying fatal device hardware, but on thing that I don't understand is, on the device manager, it says it is connected and it is healthy.Anyone know of a solution?

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