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bluzeboy

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I have an WD external drive when i woke up this morning ther drive says it RAW says local disc & is not accessible.
what can i do?
 

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You ate the second one today with that problem. Usually means that the controller card on the drive or for the enclosure has gone bad.
 

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What you can TRY is using Minitool Partition Wizard Boot CD to see if it will Recover the former partition(s) on the drive. IF that doesn't work, then you will need to consider using Data Recovery apps to retrieve files and folders from the drive -- but if the drive is physically damaged, even those will not work.
 

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im backed up but is the drive toast?
 

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bluzeboy said:
im backed up but is the drive toast?
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Most likely. But you can try running Recuva or RecoverMyFiles to see if they (1) see the drive, (2) can access the drive, and (3) find the files and folders on the drive.

If the drive is "toast", none of these will likely work.
 

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thanks mark
 

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