Here is a list of things I have tried and done:
Used other USB drives (mouse, keyboard, other external drives, jump drives) and they have worked
Used the external on two other devices with two other operating systems (windows 7 and windows vista) and they were not there. Same issue though, it...
So I have a WD external HD with all of my research data as well as some text books and other important things on there and for some reason I got an I/O error and after that the drive does not show on the computer anymore. The computer recognizes that there is a drive there and will read that it...