External hardrive in shared location after attempting to plug into TV

Hi all...
I recently plugged my external hard drive (transcend 1TB) into a TV. The TV failed to recognise it and as a result my mac now recognises it as a 'shared' and has a picture of a monitor and asks me for passwords to share? It's highly confusing... I need access to the external hard drive... can anyone help me? I've never encountered this before... has the hard drive been reformatted???

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