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As a part of the video production team at my school I have to go back and fourth, filming at school and taking footage home. Today my teacher gave me an external WD My Passport HDD (1TB) with footage and I cannot access it. It shows up in Disk Management and in Devices and Printers, but not in My Computer. I cannot access the file contents. According to Windows I have all necessary drivers..

Any help is appreciated.
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not entirely sure and you have probably done this, run as admin or something along those lines.
Saying that, this may be of some use
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It's probably not in a format that can be read with Windows. Does the teacher use a Mac?
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r00t wrote It's probably not in a format that can be read with Windows. Does the teacher use a Mac?
Yes, I figured that would be the issue. Can't assign it a letter or anything. He uses the new Mac Pro, which indeed looks like a chic coffee maker..Thanks.
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MichaelBay wrote
r00t wrote It's probably not in a format that can be read with Windows. Does the teacher use a Mac?
Yes, I figured that would be the issue. Can't assign it a letter or anything. He uses the new Mac Pro, which indeed looks like a chic coffee maker..Thanks.

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OR, you can just ask your teacher to reformat the drive in exFAT, which is readable by windows and OS X and supports files > 4GB, unlike FAT32.
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