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Toshiba external hard drive not recognized vista

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Watching a movie on external hard drive & accidently pulled the usb plug from pc, hooked it back up & restarted pc, pc not reading external hard drive now. seems like external driver not running

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Watching a movie on external hard drive & accidently pulled the usb plug from pc, hooked it back up & restarted pc, pc not reading external hard drive now. seems like external driver not running


When USB mass storage devices are not "safely removed" problems do occur.
You might:

1 - Check the drive in disk management to see what it shows, like valid file system, status etc.

2 - Windows Restore to date prior to pulling the plug.

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