If you can get your hard drive running on any computer other than your own, you should take your computer into a tech company somewhere to get it checked out. In rare cases, a hard drive failing to work on your specific computer (but working on others) can be symptomatic of a failing motherboard.If you intend to do so anyway, proceed with caution.
#HOW TO RECOVER DATA FROM MY PASSPORT EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE SOFTWARE#
If you can get your hard drive to work on a computer other than the one in which it currently resides, the problem isn't necessarily with the hard drive itself-it's with the cables or the ports on your computer. Try plugging your hard drive into a different port or computer.