USB External HD recognized but name changed & now!

This is a discussion about USB External HD recognized but name changed & now! in the Windows Hardware category; I have had this WD external harddrive for almost 2 years now. It has worked fine and always shows up as drive F:Mark's Music. Today I got another External HD and plugged it in first, it came up with drive F:, I then turned on the WD and it came up as H: , I right clicked on my computer and went to manage, and switc ...

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I have had this WD external harddrive for almost 2 years now. It has worked fine and always shows up as drive F:Mark's Music. Today I got another External HD and plugged it in first, it came up with drive F:, I then turned on the WD and it came up as H: , I right clicked on my computer and went to manage, and switched drive H: to drive S:, then changed my WD back to drive F:. Now it shows up, but only as "local disk", and when I click on it, it says this drive needs to be formatted, do you want to do this now! WTF

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