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External Hard drive No Longer Working! [urgent]
PLEASE HELP!
Okay so i have an external hard drive, western digital, almost exactly a year old. i was tagging/playing.organizing some music when things went really weird. I wasn't able to access certain files, files and folder were undeletable because they were not there according to the hard drive. I was having write permission issues with tagging, so i "took ownership" of the folder i was trying to edit. i have no idea if that is what did it or not, but after unplugging and replugging my external, it no longer shows up in explorer. I get the device disconnected/connected sound when i unplug/connect it and there are no unusual sounds coming from the device.
This device has a lot of important information on it that is only partially backed up. Pictures/Music/School Work/Documents.
i tried plugging it into my laptop running linux, but nothing at all happens.
i tried plugging it into my laptop running windows 10, it "installed" the device, but like my PC, i only get the alert sounds upon plugging and unplugging.
i am really hoping that it isnt the device's hardware that is the problem and that i somehow changed permissions and made it hidden... i know this is a longshot, but i could really use some help!
i went to look in Disk Management a second time and this time i am getting an alert.
"You must initialize a disk before Logical Disk Manager can access it"
It is "Disk 5"
and it wants me to pick MBR or GPT partition style
Chose GPT, but then it just said the device was unavailable