External HDD Drive not recognized only by windows- weird

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crislink

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After plugging my Toshiba into an ANdroid TV, windows it's not recognizing it anymore - it displays the drive but I cannot access it. If i go through disk manager i can do every operation easily. Also if I use the drive on my android phone via OTG i can operate it well and fully browse the contents. Chkdsk it's not working on this drive, seems it's hanging.

What can I do? It seems a problem related to win explorer (tried also on another PC - the same)
 
update. chkdsk succesfully ran but the situation hasn't changed

solved.

Strange but true, there was a problem with the permissions / access privileges. I really don't know why it jumped out, but after I messed up with the security options the disk reappeared.

Another related behavior: if I tried to access the drive informations by right clicking on it it didn't gave me nothing, but when I did the same via Windows Disk Manager it showed me fully informations, like it was ran by admin privileges.
 
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Do you get a "volume cannot be repaired" or "the parameter is incorrect" message when trying to access the drive?

I don't know a fix, just curious as I have had those errors with my portable drive recently.
 
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