My WDTV LIve has now stopped reading my hard drive

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live & Live Plus
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I have 3x 4TB Seagate hard drives containing all my film and TV content. I rip and export all my content via either my desktop or laptop.

Only a couple of days ago, I purchased a brand new new laptop and I am now sticking to this machine for my ripping/exporting. I have only been using one of the 3 drives for this in those past couple days - one which has been playing on my WDTV hub with no issues in the past couple months since I first bought it.

Now when I connect this harddrive to the WDTV it won’t read it. At all!

I tried reconnecting then safely disconnecting from the computer in case it misread it in some way, then I optimised it and still…nothing. It won’t recognize it. It will read and stream my other two drives but not this one.

I tried also connecting a small 128gb flash stick which I was also using on my new laptop (which has some video and music). It didn’t read that either.

Can someone possibly provide advice as to get my WDTV live reading my drive again, and whether or not connecting to a new computer has somehow interferred with it?

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I’ve checked  the forum history for similar issues and I see I’m not alone on this.

But not one of them seems to help with my current issue.

Any advice anyone? Who else has had the WDTV Live just stop reading external drives just out of the blue?

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I’ve seen this once so far and after connecting it to a windows PC and searching for errors, it was gone. You’ve already made sure you’re not using ExFAT on one of those drives, right?

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OK, I tried connecting my HDD back into my (new) laptop and now it won’t read the drive as well!!

I’ve now connected it to my desktop and it reads it. When I tried to do a disk checkup it wouldn’t allow it. Now it has completely denied me access to the drive. [Deleted]?!

Does this have something to do with the fact that I have started putting new files on this drive with a brand new windows 8 computer when I have been using windows 7 computers to do my job beforehand? And does anyone know about permissions/secuirty/file sharing on the HDDs as I’m trying all the tools on the properties, and it’s blocking me at every turn?!