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Like the case above, the issue disk unknown not initialized. Datacent offers full range of data recovery services for your failed my book essential edition western digital hard disk drive. By aomei last updated july 29, 2019 external hard drive not showing up. Afterwards i wanted to transfer those files to my laptop windows 7, but all of a sudden i had io problems and i couldnt open anything.
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