Ok so after some very long loading times and a few (not responding)'s everything seems to be working.

My only worry is the error that I got when plugged into the surface pro. It has been 10-15...

Jumanji!!!!!
Thank the heavens. I have been actually trying to follow your help on other forums. But my problem hasn't been quite the same.



This is looking like its trying to read it.
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OK! so I plugged the HDD into a new computer (surface pro) and it did recognize the device. I was able to pull up the files and see them.

Problem solved right?....WRONG!


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Thank you SimRick! Would this tool be at all similar to this?https://www.tenforums.com/attachments/drivers-hardware/133285d1493824512t-external-hdd-not-initializing-not-pc-need-recovery-image.png
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Thank you so much for your response Berton! Any help is greatly appreciated at this stage.

So when I hit the sleep button it was like putting a gun to my HDD and pulling the trigger....sad
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Trying everything I'm finding and just keep hitting dead ends or I reach a point I don't understand.
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Does putting a PC to sleep really kill any HDD that is...

Last night I was copying files from External HDD over to my computer. It was a very long process and in my sleepy state I put my computer to sleep during the copying.

When I logged back in the...