After I installed Windows 7 on a new hard drive, my 3 external drives are not get detected.

I have three external hard drives and they worked perfectly, until I had to renew my hard drive with a new drive with a new installation of windows 7. Now my computer will not reconise any of the readers. they do not show in the Device Manager either. It is said that all the hubs work perfectly. USB flash drives work OK. IM puzzled. All drivers have been updated with the driver update

Thank you very much

Original title: external hard drive

Hello

You get the error message?

Method 1: I suggest you to run the hardware and devices troubleshooter.

Open the hardware and devices Troubleshooter
http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-in/Windows7/open-the-hardware-and-devices-Troubleshooter

Method 2: I suggest you to check if the drives are displayed in disk management. If the drive is available in disk management, and then assign the drive letter.

  1. Sign in as an administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
  2. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click performance and Maintenance.
  3. Click Administrative Tools, double-click computer management, and then click disk management in the left pane.
  4. Right click on the drive, the partition, the logical drive or volume that you want to assign a drive letter to and then click change drive letter and paths.
  5. Click change.
  6. Click assign the following drive letter if it is not already selected, click the drive letter that you want to use, and then click OK.
  7. Click Yes when you are prompted to confirm the drive letter change.

The letter of the drive, partition, or volume that you specified is changed, and the new drive letter is displayed in the appropriate drive, partition, or volume in the disk management tool.

Come back and let us know the State of the question, I'll be happy to help you. We, at tender Microsoft to excellence.

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