Can't open my external hard disk, it's saying to Format it.

Anonymous
2013-01-02T06:16:46+00:00

Original title: Cant open my external hard disk

I cant open my external hard drive. It says I have to format it. In computer it just show Local Disk K but there is no storage reading.

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Devices and drivers

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-07-05T10:07:34+00:00

    Pls help me

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-06-24T00:44:08+00:00

    Please my hard drive is not working, it doesn't open and it tells me it needs to be formated

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-05-23T11:56:06+00:00

    This is indication for virus kindly use malwarebyte cleaning tool after then u can saw ur drive working properly

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-05-19T09:12:22+00:00

    i am having same issue and i dont want to loose my data but the data which is there in the disk is just videos nothing else except some excel files that too are not important.

    i want may data coz i have to rearrange the same data which i dont want to , thats why i want my data.

    My mail id is ******@gmal.com

    PLEASE HELP.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-03-01T21:10:54+00:00

    what if it dosen t work on any compuer (win xp 7 8 8 8.1 10)

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