External hard drive recognition

I didn't have this problem at the beginning, but now my computer recognizes my external hard drive, but it won't it backup my files because he says he does not recognize it. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Have you checked the flash on another PC? He works there? If his work there then Exchange plug in the port and then display the results.

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