I have ran into a snag with my external hard drive. Last night I was attempting to shink my 1TB hard drive into a 400GB and a 600GB partition (approx). I was using: MiniTool partition Wizzard Home eddition. After hitting apply/perform operation on the hard drive. This failed with an error message which I cannot recall.. It gave me the option to cancel the operation.. So I did, now... My External Hard drive is not showing up in My Computer (Named computer).. Nor in Disk management. I have attempted to re-scan disks in the tool also scanning for Hardware changed under Device manager.
I can confirm that there are no clashing Drive names also.. I have tried numerous restarts and even changing the USB Port which this hard drive is plugged into.. Nothing that I have attempted is working?
So my overall question, is that how else should I approach this problem in order to regain access to my hard drive?