I couldn't find the questions in this post.
But drives that stop working has been discussed with ideas what to try so I'll give the quick version.
1. Try the drive on another machine.
2. Look in Drive Management.
3. Try the titles in the top of this forum.
4. Try the drive in a desktop or another case.
Good hunting!
Bob
well i've just had 2 western digital external hard drives plugged into my comp because i was transferring some files from my external drive to another, when i was doing this one of my external drives froze and said not responding so i pulled out the power cable which i've done in the past without any problems. But now for some reason when i plug the power cable back into my drive it won't show up on my computer, usually i get a little menu bar that appears on my desktop saying open files which would then give me access to all my data on the drive. When i plug my drive back in it makes a little beep noise indicating that everything is setup but i can't find my external hard drive files, its always come up under my computer under the name of 'elements' but that logo isn't insight. I've looked everywere on my computer but i just can't find it, theres like 2TB's of data on it. My other external hard drives show up with no problem so i can't understand why the other external drive is being arkward. All the connections are by USB and i'm on windows 7 i've restarted my comp but that hasn't made a difference. Like i said i've pulled out the cable in the past without a problem so i know the must be a way of finding the elements logo.

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