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I have a new WD 500gb drive that I have been using for sometime and now I get A Healthy(at Risk) indication in the disk manager. When I attempt to reactivate this drive is remains healthy for a few moments then returns to the heathly(at Risk) status.<br />
1. How do I recover data from this drive.<br />
2. How do I format the drive to work as my other drives.. not dynamic but a regular partitioned drive<br />

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I have a new WD 500gb drive that I have been using for sometime and now I get A Healthy(at Risk) indication in the disk manager. When I attempt to reactivate this drive is remains healthy for a few moments then returns to the heathly(at Risk) status.
1. How do I recover data from this drive.
2. How do I format the drive to work as my other drives.. not dynamic but a regular partitioned drive


Drive won't reactivate

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