Quick Fix on WD Hard Drive Not Recognized Error

There are many causes of Windows or Mac doesn't recognize the WD hard drive. We've received an email today asking help on recovering data from a WD hard drive, which cannot be recognized by Windows 10. Then we consider it's better to tell about this issue in this article and lead someone who doesn't know how to fix WD hard drive not recognized error.

"Please help, today when I tried to open my computer, I received a message that the 500GB WD external hard drive not recognized. I tried to reboot the computer several times, but the problem was still the same. However the power LED is still on, I am pretty sure the hard drive cable is completely all right because I just bought yesterday and it works fine until today. Please help me to fix the error or just help me to recover the data on the WD hard drive. Thanks very much." One of our customers wrote the email on August 22, 2018.

How to fix WD hard drive not recognized error?

1. Check the hard drive data cable and try to change to a new data cable.
2. Turn on the USB root hub of the hard drive in device manager

Sometimes the bad quality of the cable of the hard drive may cause the WD hard drive not recognized error. Therefore, by changing to a new data cable you'll probably have the chance to fix the error.

In addition, virus attacks may cause the same error and you'd better firstly remove the viruses or Trojans from your PC to make the WD external hard drive being recognizable. You can also try to uncheck Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power function on Power Management of the USB root hub located on Device Manager.

With the above 2 ways, you can fix the WD hard drive not recognized error, troubleshooting on the WD external hard drive with each method mentioned above.

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Recover Data If iPhone Attempting Data Recovery Failed

Sometimes, your iPhone may enter iPhone attempting data recovery process. If this process completes successfully, everything will be OK. However, if it failed and causes data loss issue, you will need to recover data from iPhone. 

 

You will surely get worried when you see your iPhone stuck in recovery mode with 'Attempting data recovery' during iOS updates. It's not ended yet. When it has finally arrived, you must have to face both success and failure results. If it fails, it will also cause data loss.

     

There is no doubt that you need professional data recovery to help you to retrieve the losing data. We suggest you use a third-party tool like Bitwar iPhone Data Recovery, it is specially designed to recover lost data from iPhone/iPad/iPod, and it can recover various types of data including photos, videos, contacts, messages, notes, call logs, bookmarks, reminders, and calendar, etc. In addition, it has friendly user experience and wizard operation, you can recover the data by only 3 steps and find the lost data even if you are not familiar with computer operations. Therefore, you can turn to Bitwar for help when the iPhone is stuck in recovery mode with the demand 'Attempting data recovery'.

If your iPhone stuck in recovery mode of attempting data recovery fails, you can use the Bitwar iPhone Data Recovery software to get them back.

As the best data recovery software, Bitwar Recovery can restore many kinds of data from various devices, including Windows, Mac, iPhone 5, iPhone 6s, iPhone 7, etc. Why not download it and have a try?

Read more? Recover Data If iPhone Attempting Data Recovery Failed

Fix Xbox One Green Screen of Death

Have you ever faced the Xbox one green screen of death issue before or you are now having the Xbox one stuck on Loading green screen? Here's the tutorial to lead you how to fix this issue and then guide you a file recovery on Xbox one.

Xbox One is a line of eighth-generation home video game consoles developed by Microsoft. Announced in May 2013, which is one of the most popular game consoles like Nintendo Switch, PlayStation Vita, Project Shield, etc. Likewise, Xbox One is using hard drive to store games as others, and we found that many users had such issue on the internet:

When I turn on my Xbox one, it sticks on loading green screen, but it does not continue. I waited for even 2 hours but still the same. How can I fix this issue, please help!
Don't panic, if you cannot find the answers through Google, try to find the answers here!

Solution One. Offline Update the Xbox One system to fix the green screen of death

To update Xbox one offline system, you'll need:

1. A Windows-based PC with an Internet connection and a USB port.
2. A USB flash drive with a minimum of 4 GB of space formatted as NTFS.

Tips: You'll have to format the USB flash drive as NTFS partition before you try to perform the formatting, backup all of the necessary files onto the computer.

Then follow the below tutorial to save the ZIP file on the USB flash drive:

Step 1. Connect this NTFS USB flash drive with the computer.
Step 2. Download Offline System Update file OSU1 from http://www.xbox.com/xboxone/osu1
Step 3. Save the update .zip file to the computer.
Step 4. Unzip the file by right-clicking on the file and extract update.zip.
Step 5. Copy the $SystemUpdate file from the .zip file to USB flash drive.

Note: Please copy the files to the root directory of USB flash drive and make sure there are no other files on the drive. Unplug the USB flash drive from your computer once you finished the copy.

You can now try to enter into the Xbox One Troubleshooter interface by pressing and holding BIND and EJCT button for about 10-15 seconds and then press Xbox button, after hearing 2 power-on beeps, release the BIND and EJCT button, you can see the Xbox One Startup Troubleshooter interface now.

Now, connect the USB flash drive with Xbox One and then select Offline System Update to finish the update. Normally, the Xbox one will reboot and green screen issue won't happen again, plug off the USB flash drive and enjoy yourself now.

Solution Two: Hard restart to fix Xbox one green screen issue

Press and hold down on the Power button on the Xbox One for 10 seconds, after that, the system will restart and generally, the green screen of death issue will be fixed.

About another solutions，please read: 3 Solutions to Fix Xbox One Green Screen of Death 2019