I think you should read his first post again. He just said that option is unchecked.

Thank you for the response, spapakons. I will try that, but, there's just one problem: how can I do that if the hard drive doesn't show up on computer at all? After my two attempts to connect the...

I apologize for necroing this thread, but, I didn't want to make another thread when all the necessary information is already in this thread. I waited until Black Friday to purchase the necessary...

Thanks, but, that was the first thing I tried.. And it was useless. It can't even find the hard drive. Just like how Crystal Disk Info can't find the hard drive in question when Disk Management can,...

If this kind of thing would work for 3.5" externals, it'd win my most awesome post of the year award.... -sigh-

Thanks for all the responses. There's just one kink: my computer is a laptop, like I stated in my system specs. And my hard drive bay is, naturally, underneath all the battery and good stuff. How am...

I did think about taking it out and sticking in the extra hard drive slot and see if I can access the hard drive that way, but, I haven't found any spot on the external where I can pry it open...

Say, is this supposed to happen? I plugged in the hard drive again to see if Crystal Disk Info can find it this time, but, this shows up in Disk Management:
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And yeah, I see what you mean....

Thank you for replying, topgun. I downloaded it and it's showing as running in the Task Manager as a background process, so we'll see how it goes. I guess I should keep to internal hard drives next...

I have a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk 2TB USB 3.0 external hard drive that I use to store (majority) videos and documents. A few days ago it started giving me this error for every folder and file,...