Should I uninstall the WDC WD3200AAJS-00L7A0 as well, even though it is not greyed-out? I uninstall the drivers and it just comes back at each boot. You have recommended removing the "greyed-out" entries, however, it is definately the second (WDC) drive listed that is the problem. According to WD, this number is for an internal drive, hopefully not my my main HHD. This is the device showing up as a CD Drive retaining the K Drive Letter. The second "live" device (not greyed-out) is listed as: This is the drive that eventually failed and is no longer connected to the PC There were 2 WD Devices listed, one greyed out, one actively seen. Tried going through the cmd (Run Window) and found numerous "greyed-out" entries, most of which are old flash drives. The letter (K) that it retains, is also unavailable as a choice for assigning Drive Letters for other devices. Thank You again! As in video, unable to change drive letter for the device as the drive does not appear in Disc Management. Otherwise, recommendations for affordable data recovery or any other ideas would be greatly appreciated. If the Drive is spinning, I believe the electronics are bad and am willing to purchase an identical drive (if I can find one) and swap the electronics, then see if I can access the data. ![]() If I remove the drivers AND the Drive, when I boot, windows reloads the drivers as if new hardware was found without it being connected! I do not know how to uninstall this ghost of a drive. I removed the drive from the PC for awhile and after uninstalling the drivers, booted up as WD had told me, only the drive shows up now as a CD playing drive, which of course, asks for a CD to be inserted before it will access it.Īfter disconnecting the WD Ext Hard Drive, it still shows up under My Computer and Disk Manager as the CD Drive. What I don't understand is this: After contacting WD Support and switching power to a wall socket, it seemed to fix things for a day. I was hoping to transfer data to a second drive but it did not arrive in time. ![]() The drive powers up and spins and soon after, I hear the little clicks of the arm hitting the side of the case. I have a WD2500 external hard drive I have been using to expand my PC's HD capacity that recently began to fail.
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