SOURCE: Wd 120gb External no longer recognised by my PC
hi there
have you tried looking at the device manager?
you can also try transfering it to different usb ports.
hope this helps
SOURCE: My PC is not recognizing my WD Passport 120GB USB external drive.
These WD Passport external drives are junk. This happened to two of mine, switched to Maxtor.
SOURCE: My PC is not recognizing my WD Passport 120GB USB external drive.
I have the 80GB WD passport and it suddenly stopped working one day. The unit lights up but nothing else. Finally I cracked the case open and found, as I suspected, that the drive is simply a SATA laptop drive with a SATA-to-USB conversion card built in. I suspected that the card was **** so I disconnected it and used a USB hard drive adapter (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=3770&name=USB_Hard_Drive_Adapter) and I can read/write to the drive just fine. Best part is that the adapter I use has its own power supply so I'm not pulling juice through the USB cable for a SATA drive.
Even though mine "works" again I don't recommend these drives to anyone. They're just not sturdy enough or well designed.
SOURCE: My PC is not recognizing my WD Passport 120GB USB external drive.
Does you drive make any sounds like these?
If yes you have a mechanical problem and you should get a specialist to work on it.
If not - try to remove the drive from the enclosure and connect it directly to the computer to recover your files.
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