external harddrive is not being reconized, is there a free program or software to help detect whats wrong?

My Western Digital external started to not be reconized on my computers and I want to try to see if there are any free programs or software to help this out. I prefer not to send it into data recovery companies yet because I heard that it is expensive, but I have about 150 GB of data I need. Very important documents for my graphic arts projects. Thanks.

Try different USB port on your computer on your computer or try another USB cable. If those don’t work then unfortunately you are SOL unless you have backup or can spring for the recovery fee or you have backups in the future I recommend using spider oak (see the link bellow) to create extra back ups.

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One Response to “external harddrive is not being reconized, is there a free program or software to help detect whats wrong?”

The GNU Guy on March 11th, 2010 at 10:12 am

Try different USB port on your computer on your computer or try another USB cable. If those don’t work then unfortunately you are SOL unless you have backup or can spring for the recovery fee or you have backups in the future I recommend using spider oak (see the link bellow) to create extra back ups.
References :
https://spideroak.com/download/referral/bd2d80fafcc615054bce2d957ef6065a

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