External drive WD Passport not appearing is not in Solution Explorer / my computer

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  ·         How do you try to connect the external hard drive to your computer?

  ·         You are able to view the external drive in disk management?

  I suggest you follow the methods provided below and check if it works:

  Method 1:

  Check to see if you can view the disk external drive in disk management please refer to the steps below

  1. open computer management by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking system and Maintenance, clicking Administrative Tools, and then double-clicking on computer management.  If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

  2 in the l of the component of Navigation , under storage, click disk management

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  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter

  Hope this helps,

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  I put the drive on ANOTHER mac, the icon displayed as expected.

  I attach the drive to my main computer, the icon shows:

  If no other external drives are mounted: the custom 'player/b' icon who was NEVER stuck on the current drive

  If "drive/b" mentioned above is mounted: the OLD icon I deleted out of and pasted multiple times more

  In short I am the guarantee to see either an icon that was NEVER attached to the car in question, OR the first icon I changed it manually the reader to.

  NEVER the drive icon I have several times tried to affect the reader, and that appears on all them Mac says drive is attached to...

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  You can remove the stacked icons and revert to the default. Then, apply your new icon.

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• Like if there is no external drive WD Passport to the F: drive

  I saved the files on the WD Passport external drive.  When excessing throught explores, the player goes to F: and after restarting G: changes I want to sent this external hard drive as a specific drive (f).

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  Have you made changes on the computer before this problem?

  I would suggest trying the following methods and check if it helps.

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  Try changing the drive letter and check if it helps.

  Change, add, or remove a drive letter:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter

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  I have Western Digital external storage drives, I plug it on and use that I need different things.

  One of these if my software (Memeo) backup on a 500G drive.

  I've marked these drives so I know which ones are connected.

  It seems that Memeo is stuck seeing the drive letter (H in order to run backups here.)

  It's ok, but for some reason when I connect this drive to backup on the machine, it is no longer happens as (H.)

  He always default (I have and I can't it will come up with (H.))

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  Note: I have an another external WD 4 TB of video storage and I noticed that this seems to be required on the (H car (or so it seems) adjustment.)  Event with this player not connected not I can't get any player to come as (H, but as soon as I plug the video storage disk (H appears on the right.))

  My question: is there a way to 'flush' or 'clear' this setting to hold somewhere on it.  Or do you have other ideas?

  I'm under Win 8.1 on a HP Pavilion Notebook of Ent.

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  Change/assign letters to drive manually using disk management. Or at least the video player. Plug it, go to the management of records, right click on the drive and select "change drive letter and path. Choose a path of letter Z same key string, maybe. If the backup drive is not given then H, repeat the process and give it the drive letter permanent h.

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