I bought a WD5000BEV harddrive in december 2009 and within 6 months it has started giving me problems. Sometimes the computer recognises it and some times it does not. Even thought it appears on the windows explorer i am not able to access the drive. if i try to the explorer hangs. IS the hard drive damanged or can it be fixed?. i can afford to loose the data as i took a backup a few months back
Computers & Internet - Western Digital - External USB 2.0 80 GB Hard Drive
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Probably not the right answer for your problem. Mine is an external 1 TB Simple Drive. Mine wouldn't respond at all. I unplugged the power cable from the back of the hard drive and replugged it in and instantly it worked (with the computer and hard drive plugged in). I had tried rebooting the computer, plugging/unplugging over and over into the computer and that didn't work.