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Question posted by bob13962 on July 7th, 2011

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I have a the above mentioned external hard drive and all lf a sudden it does not get recognized by my laptop.  When I plug it into my usb port the computer dings just like a new disk is being inserted but when I go to my computer the drive does not show. How can I either reformat the drive or somehow get it to install again?

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