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It's A Digital Disease!

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Candid_Leaf on 2025-06-30 18:11:17.

I scrolled and scrolled, didn't see anything pertaining to my problem.

I bought a WD Elements external hard drive. I have a brand new laptop. When I plug it in, I can hear the hard drive doing things... But nothing populates into the files explorer section (where I'm used to seeing "F: drive" or something similar when inserting a thumb drive.

Is there something I need to do to get the computer to recognize the device, so that I can begin using it? Thank you for helping me avoid a 120.00 paper weight!!

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