External hard drive is not showing in my computer

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• Seagate: the external hard drive is not displayed in my computer

  My seagate external hard drive does not show in my computer and also the Disk Manager but its shown in Device Manager. help out me. I have a lot of data in it.

  

  

  Nitesh salvation,

  Thanks for posting your question in the Microsoft Community forums.

  I understand from your description you have posted, that the external hard drive is not recognized by the computer of Windows 8.

  Before you continue with the troubleshooting steps, please answer the questions below.

  (1) have you checked with different ports or different computers?

  (2) remember to make changes before this problem?

  (3) you are able to detect the drive in disk management?

  I suggest to follow the steps below and check if the problem persists.

  Method 1: Run the troubleshooter of material and check out la.

  Follow the steps to run the Troubleshooter:

  (a) press the Windows key + C on your keyboard to show the charms.

  (b) type of Troubleshooting , and then click solving problems under settings.

  (c) now, type Hardware Troubleshooter in the option Search .

  (d) click on hardware store to run the troubleshooter.

  If you are able to detect the drive in disk management, I suggest you to assign a letter.

  Method 2: Assign drive letter:

  The disk management.

  To assign a drive letter if it has not already received, click Add, click the letter you want to use, and then click OK.
  To change a drive letter, click on edit, click on assign the following drive letter, click the letter you want to use and then click OK.

  To remove a drive letter, click on remove and then click Yes to confirm that you want to remove.

  You can also check out the article below and follow the instructions.

  Why isn't Windows does not find my device?

  Hope this information was helpful, if you need help, feel free to post. We will be happy to help you.

• my external hard drive will not appear in my computer although it shows in Device Manager. It was working fine last week, so any suggestions would be great.

  I tried to restore my laptop computer and uninstall the hard drive. still can not open it.

  Try these:

  go to sart
  Right click on my computer
  Click on manage
  Click Contine to UAC prompt
  then click on storage
  then click on disk management
  then right click on your device and select Add letters and the path
  window pop up, and then click Add
  her select an alphabet and click ok

  I hope I could help

• External hard drive is not recognized

  My external hard drive is not recognized by windows, the led lights up but no display on 'my computer '.

  Try it on another computer, if it doesn't, it could be a bad cable or hard drive box. Use a different cable or an enclosure.

  If it works on another computer, on your computer check the disk, if it is displayed in computer management. In Explorer, right click on "Computer", click 'manage '. Under computer management, storage, click on "disk management". If it is showing a right click on it, click on «Change drive letter and path...» ", click the"Edit"button and then assign a drive letter.

  Or if the reader is displayed, you can check in the Device Manager. In the device under Universal Serial Bus controllers Manager looking for the drive generally a mass storage device, right-click on it, uninstall and then restart. If does not uninstall everything under USB controllers, then restart your computer.

• Windows 7 can't copy files on external hard drive and keep showing "cannot read the source file or disk.

  Windows 7 can't copy files on external hard drive and keep showing "cannot read the source file or disk" HELP me PLS
  I'm going crazy because of this

  Hello

  1. What is the format of the file system on the external hard drive?

  2. are you able to copy or move files into the computer?

  You can follow the suggestions mentioned below and check with the question.

   
   
  Method 1:Delete CCG, prefetch files.
   
  Step 1: Delete Temp files

  (1) open the window run (Windows key + R)

  (2) type %temp%, and then press ENTER

  (3) delete all Temp files in the Temp folder
   
  Step 2: Delete Prefetch files

  (1) open the window run (Windows key + R)

  (2) type %temp%, and then press ENTER

  (3) delete all files in the Prefetch folder.

  Method 2: Run the tool (SFC.exe) System File Checker, try to copy the files and check.
   
  Follow the form of measures the following link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833
  Method 3: Run the check disk then try to copy the files and check.
  
  Check a drive for errors
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/check-a-drive-for-errors
  Note: If bad sectors are found in the hard drive then it could try to fix this particular sector. If you have any data on that, it can get lost.
   
  See also: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976972
   
  I hope this helps!

• IPhoto on the external hard drive will not launch despite the force quit and relaunch several times. Can someone help me?

  I have a MacBook from 2008. 4 years ago I moved my iPhoto on an external hard drive. I have thousands if photos on it. IPhoto on the external hard drive will not launch despite the force quit and relaunch several times. Can someone help me?

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  I moved my iPhoto on an external hard drive.

  Did you move the iPhoto library for the external hard drive or the iPhoto application, or both?

  How is formatted the external hard drive? Is the file system on the drive Mac OS extended (journaled) or other system files?  Is the drive directly connected by USB or similar, or is it a SIN?

  IPhoto on the external hard drive will not launch despite the force quit and relaunch several times.

  I don't understand - if you force quit smoking, launches the application, or you can not force it quit?

  IPhoto is suspended without doing anything, when you launch?

  What version of iPhoto does? And what version of Mac OS X?

• External hard drive USB, not received a drive letter in Vista 64-Bit

  I do not use my BeyondMicro 160 G external hard drive a lot just to make occasional backups, well this time was different.  I have powered the drive, plugged the USB cable into my PC and normal tone was heard, but NO drive letter is assigned to the drive.  In fact I couldn't find anywhere in my computer that the unit was even detected.  I Visa Ultimate 64-bit, I tried to uninstall the drivers in the Device Manager and rebooted and still no external drive, any suggestions?

  Konala Hello,

  Thank you for your response.

  If the external hard drive not detected below are some steps to solve the problem:
   
  You can check if the device is compatible with Windows Vista by visiting the Windows Vista Compatibility Center, which includes a list of drivers, hardware and applications that are compatible with Windows Vista.
   
  For reference, the link to the Windows Vista Compatibility Center is included below:
  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/compatibility/
   
  Then, if the external hard drive is not detected in Device Manager, please check if the external drive is detected in the management of the computer:
   
  You can check this by going to: start then click on computer
  When it is connected and switched on, the drive should appear as a drive letter on the computer (ie: drive E:, F: or another letter.) An Autorun window may also appear if the drive is detected.
   
  If the external drive does not appear, please check the following:

  · Check the power supply and check if it works normally.
  · Check the wiring and check that the USB cable is plugged into a port. You can also try another USB port.
  · Check disk management to see if the drive is detected it:
   
  1. right click on computer, select manage, select disk management.
  2. check the upper and lower windows to find if the drive is detected.
   
  If the external hard drive is not detected, try to connect the external drive to another PC to check if the unit is working normally.
   
  Then please check if Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is installed currently.  If WVSP1 is not installed, you can try to install this service pack and check if the problem still persists.
   
  For reference, the link below contains information. about how to obtain the latest Windows Vista service pack:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/935791/
   
   
  The relay please status after the above steps so that we will offer any additional assistance.

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• My external hard drive is not recognized anymore

  I have windows 7 I have been using my external hard drive for a very long time.  All of a sudden when I plug in my external drive (free agent) it is nowhere.  The device works on other computers but not my main one more.  I don't know what to do.  Can anyone help?  Thank you

  Hi Pam,.

  Welcome to the Microsoft community!

  The external hard drive is not detected.

  The problem may occur if the drive letter is not affected or the hard drive is not enabled.

  What is the model of the unit?

  To check if the drive letter is affected or if the disk is turned on, I suggest you follow the steps in the site:

  My drive does not appear in the Windows Explorer view http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330140

   

  I hope this helps. If the problem persists, let know us and we would be happy to help you.

• Seagate external hard drive is not recognized in Windows 7

  I have a 1 to Seagate disc ext I used since February 2011, I changed my computer since then and only recently, it does not recognize the drive. I couldn't find any free software to download, and the drive did not come with CD. Please help? Thank you.

  You can also follow step proposed in this link & check if the problem persists:

  Seagate Expansion Portable 500 GB external hard drive does not work on my windows 7

• External hard disk is not recognized in my computer

  My external Western Digital USB hard drive is not recognized in my computer.

  I see it in Device Manager and computer management/disk management but not in my computer.

  Update driver, a refreshed in disk management and several reboots.

  The external hard drive is there but not recognized on my computer.

  I need to restore from this external hard drive, but I can't access it.

  most of the answers deals with reformatting... the original post says he wants recover from this drive to reformat does not help... the external usb drives, equipped with cables that have 2 ends of usb, connect the two in to; separated on the MB, separate usb hubs usb ports it is because power is causing problems (current rises to voltage drops) then sometimes access to the drive causes the voltage on a single falling down USB, think the os it's read-only / permission issues, with 2 connected to separate power sources the question goes... they were built that way...

  I also recommend to never put a USB through a third party hub as more often which can cause problems with the unrecognized drive.

  That said, yes I had to reformat to access a drive, if you cannot write to a disc rclick and observe the permissions, if you have formatted the drive on another pc and not changed the permissions for everyone, then under sercurity see you permissions set on a long number, it is because he is always set to original pc (or the id of this pc). Sometimes you can over the way these parameters by taking possession (in the s parameters) and reset to everyone on the local pc.

  Something else I found on the disc is not recognized... Plug it into the usb port as described above and restart the pc, I got this job...

  Note: I deal with almost all the avalible from different readers that my clients use them all.

• My drive is not showing in my computer I have a code 10

  original title: code of 10 cd/dvd

  I use windows Vista, home
  My cd/dvd drive is HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T40N ATA
  My drive is not showing in my computer
  I have a code 10
  The drivers are up-to-date
  Is my drive broken

  Kind regards
  Jackie

  Hello Jackie Murphy,.

  To resolve this problem, remove the affected filter drivers. To do this, follow these steps:

  1.	Click Start , type regedit in the Search box, and then click regedit in the list of programs . If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type your password, or click continue .
  2.	Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\ {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} Warning There may be many instances of the registry subkey that is mentioned in step 2. You must ensure that you are in the appropriate registry subkey before modifying the UpperFilters and LowerFilters values. To verify that you are in the appropriate registry subkey, make sure that the default data value is the CD-ROM/DVD-ROM and the class data value is CDROM.
  3.	In the pane, click UpperFilters , and then click Remove .
  4.	Click Yes to confirm the deletion of the UpperFilters registry entry.
  5.	In the pane, click LowerFilters , and then click Remove .
  6.	Click Yes to confirm the deletion of the LowerFilters registry entry.
  7.	Exit the registry editor and restart the computer.

  Martin
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• Drive external hard drive does not appear under "devices."

  Hello

  I just updated my OS to Sierra of MacOS. I have connected my external hard drive (HDD) and it does not appear under "Devices" in my Finder window. It worked fine before the update.

  I use a MacBook Pro (end of 2013), currently running MacOS Sierra (Version 10.12). My external HARD drive is a SeaGate Slim SL Media (500 GB).

  The external HARD disk appears in disk utility application. He also appears on the about this Mac > system report > USB. I don't know what the problem is, the external HARD disk is identified but does not appear for use in the Finder window.

  I read that it could possibly be in mode 'sleep' and putting the MacBook to sleep (while it is plugged into the external HARD drive) and it to wake up again should solve the problem. However, it did not work. No more restarting my MacBook. It was mentioned in another post that it may require extra power, so I attached power adapter and again, without success.

  I do not want to clear the contents of the external HARD drive.

  Is there a way to get my external HARD drive works as expected with my MacBook?

  Thank you much in advance.

  I also have this problem.

  My camera is Macbook Pro 13 "retina 2015 and Seagate Backup more 1 TB (NTFS - Paragon NTFS)

  * Edit *.

  

  My HDD show in report system > hardware > USB

  but it does not show in Finder or Desktop.

• My external hard drive will not go up and I'm not sure what the question is

  My external hard drive will show up in disk utility, but not of viewfinder. I tried to hit "repair disk" and he says it will take 4 hours, but after a while, that he's finally going to say that it is impossible to repair the disk and I need to make a backup.

  Help?

  Almost always, the question is quite simple: the hard drive is faulty or has failed. So I hope that you have a backup of everything that is on, it is absolutely essential.

• Seagate 2 TB external hard drive does not register

  I almost always took care to disconnect the drive safely, and continued to work well when he is accidentally unplugged (only happened 3 - 4 times). Today he did not appear in the office or in the finder, the responses in this thread, external HARD drive Seagate will appear not in place were a little helpful but did not fix my problem. Here are some of the facts of the case, somehow:

  • I use a 2012 MacBook Pro running El Capitan with a 1 TB hard drive (this was added later when the original drive has failed)
  • External hard disk was used to transfer large files a bit to a laptop running Windows 8 and was not ejected safely from this computer
  • The reader is displayed correctly on other MacBooks (tested today) and all files are in order.
  • The drive appears in the report of the system but does not appear in the disk utility.
  • The drive does not appear in the Seagate dashboard that was installed when the car was purchased.
  • The drive has two partitions: one for Time Machine and the other to the format to work on Mac and Windows to store normal files.
  • My MacBook has been impossible to open a .dmg file today, unconnected with. I do not have this issue.

  I'd appreciate any help you can give. Thank you!

  Riley G. says:

  I almost always took care to disconnect the drive safely, and continued to work well when he is accidentally unplugged (only happened 3 - 4 times). Today he did not appear in the office or in the finder, the responses in this thread, external HARD drive Seagate will appear not in place were a little helpful but did not fix my problem. Here are some of the facts of the case, somehow:

  • I use a 2012 MacBook Pro running El Capitan with a 1 TB hard drive (this was added later when the original drive has failed)
  • External hard disk was used to transfer large files a bit to a laptop running Windows 8 and was not ejected safely from this computer
  • The reader is displayed correctly on other MacBooks (tested today) and all files are in order.
  • The drive appears in the report of the system but does not appear in the disk utility.
  • The drive does not appear in the Seagate dashboard that was installed when the car was purchased.
  • The drive has two partitions: one for Time Machine and the other to the format to work on Mac and Windows to store normal files.
  • My MacBook has been impossible to open a .dmg file today, unconnected with. I do not have this issue.

  If it shows in disk utility > file >Mount

  
  

• Library of photos on external hard drive does not open

  So, I recently backed up my 2012 macbook pro on an external hard drive using time machine and wiped the computer. The hard drive shows that my old hard drive was saved (there ~ used 400GB the 1 TB), however when I try to open my photo library, it tells me that files cannot be saved? I was wondering if there's another way to open these files in addition to using pictures? the file says it's big 235 GB so I know that my photos and videos are out there. If someone could help me that would be great! The last 5 years of my life are in this file. (,:

  You cannot open a Time Machine backup of the library directly. You must first restore somewhere.

  Time Machine is a backup tool, not a tool for archiving. It gives you a window of time retrieve data that has been lost in the backup source. You can't count on it to keep the files you want to keep indefinitely. All these files should be saved with the rest of your original data. The files that you delete from the source volumes will be finally removed from backups, after a variable delay which depends on your usage model and the size of the backup volume.