Evening all.
Not having much luck with computers this week. Just get my laptop back up & running after some weeks....then I go drop my external HD!
When I say 'drop,' I mean I picked it up but it slipped out of my fingers and dropped onto a carpeted floor...softish landing from all of about 1 - 2 cm's up!
It wasn't plugged into my computer, but was powered up.
When I now connect it to my computer, it doesn't auto-run like it should. Instead, I get a message stating,
"...The drive is not ready for use; it's door may be open. Please check drive \Device\Harddisk1\DR28..."
I right-click My Computer > Manage > Storage > Disk Management > It tells me my E
Drive is Healthy & Active! When I want to explore the drive, I get the error message "The Drive is Not Ready/Accessible"
Any ideas as to what I should do now please? I've tried to run a chkdsk on it, but because it isn't being recognised, I can't.
Even done really technical things to it, like tap it & shake it gently to try and wake it up, but with no success.
Suggestions gratefully acccepted!