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• Data from external hard drive not visible

  My computer has been recently infected with the virus to restore Windows. As soon as I was aware, I unplugged my network cable and a drive external hard (without using to remove the device safely), who has all my data. I then used a previous restore point to get rid of the virus, which was apparently with success, because there is no remaining trace.

  Now, the external hard drive is not visible in Explorer. Other utility programs say that the data is always there, but I can't see it or access it in the usual way. This drive worked perfectly up to this point. I tried to restart, unplug the external drive and reconnect it and using a different USB port, but so far nothing has worked.

  How can I get Vista to recognize my external drive?

  Hello

  Run the system restore will be not delete or remove the virus on the computer. System Restore helps you restore system files from your computer to an earlier point in time.

  First I suggest you to run the check, and online virus scan if no malware or viruses detected on the computer activity. You can run the scan for viruses online from the link below: http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx

  NOTE: Make sure that you select the correct version of the operating system before downloading the scanner)

  For the problem with the external hard drive, follow the methods below:

  Method 1:

  Check if the device is detected in Device Manager. Follow the steps for the same thing:

  a. click on start

  b. click Run, in the Run dialog box type devmgmt.msc

  (c) in the Device Manager window, locate the drive

  Method 2:

  Run the fix it from the link below and check if it helps. Link: Hardware devices do not work or are not detected in Windows: http://support.microsoft.com/mats/hardware_device_problems/

• External hard drive not appearing is not on Macbook Pro

  Hello

  I have problems with my external hard drive not appearing is not on my mac pro book. I did disk utility, and yet nothing has worked. I turned my computer on and off and the UN-plugged in the external hard drive. This has been a problem on my mac for a while and im frustrated book now. Im not sure what else to do. My external hard drive is a WD elements 1 TB. I tried the external hard drive on my windows of parents and it shows but does not appear on my mac book. I'm doing youtube videos, so I wanted to free my desktop because that all cluttered now. All my videos and my green screens that I use are on this external hard drive. Help, please.

  Thank you

  Open the Finder, then go to the Finder menu bar and click Finder > Preferences then select the general tab, then check that the external drives is enabled.

  If this does not help, make sure that OS X is up to date.

  Update the software on your Mac - Apple Support

• External hard drive not detected with the error: "You must format the disk in the J: drive until you can use it."

  Hello

  I have an external hard drive to work perfectly. I'm back from vacation, and it does not appear under "My Computer". It appears under "Devices and printers", however. This is a link to a screencap of Device Manager: http://i.gyazo.com/9e91e1d71ed32c55dba0419e79b499d5.png

  The device in question is that of J:, and it says here that he has 100% free space, that worries me, because he had only 50 GB of free space when I used the latter. After that I open the disk management, I get a pop up message saying: "You must format the disk in the J: drive until you can use it."

  How can I get my hard drive appears again?

  Thank you

  Original title: external hard drive not appearing is not in Windows 7

  Hi John,.

  Thanks for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

  I imagine the inconvenience that you are experiencing and will certainly help you in the right direction to solve the problem.

  According to the error message, I suggest trying the suggestions posted by the NakulShridhar responded on 14 October 2011 and by that alexquiteguy replied on 13 January 2011 in the thread following link and check if it helps.

  "You must format the disk in drive J: before you can use it"

  [Steps apply to Windows 7]

  Hope this information is useful. Let us know if you need more help, we will be happy to help you.

• External hard drive not a letter from reader: I already installed device driver for the same thing and it's showing in disk management.

  External hard drive not a letter from reader: I already installed device driver for the same thing and it's showing in disk management. But when I checked in system information, it is also displayed device but sectors and the tracs where showing the value 0.

  Hello Sharan,

  These links may help:

  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc750198.aspx

  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc977219.aspx

• external hard drive not in management of disks and in my computer. Hard drive is not grateful. Hot to get the content

  Hi, I am trying to connect my external hard drive, but it is not visible in my computer or disk management. But the disk is running, can you please let me know how to make visible and removes the content. Thank you

  If its not visible in disk management, the drive does not work, your way of connecting a player to your PC is defective or if only a usb connection, the usb port does not work (check for brands of yellow warning device manager)

• External hard drive not detected in Windows 8

  I just bought a Dell XPS 13, running Windows 8.

  I have two external hard drives from LaCie.

  Disc 1 is used with a Lenovo X120e running Windows 7.

  Disc 2 has two partitions, exclusively for my Macbook Pro running 10.9.5 and the other smaller partition is used to move files between Lenovo and the Macbook.

  When I connect Drive 1 to the XPS 13, nothing happens. It is not turn nor it appears in Device Manager.

  If I turn it on to Lenovo, it works very well.

  When I connect Drive 2 to the XPS 13 (to the same USB port and using the same cable), he turns and is detected.

  If the port is working, pilots work, cable works and Drive 1 works when connected to the Lenovo running Windows 7.

  How can I get the XPS 13 to recognize Drive 1? There must be a way to do this without formatting again.

  Thank you.

  The drive is visible in the BIOS or the mode without failure on the XPS 13?

  You can also try to paginate the connection of the power supply in the drive that works.

• External hard drive not saved

  Time machine is not back up an external hard drive, even if it is removed from the exclusion list in the preferences of TM. The drive checks very well with disk utility and disk Warrior. Please notify.

  How the external hard drive is connected, and how it is formatted?

• External hard drive not appearing is not in the side bar of the Finder

  My external hard drive does not appear in my sidebar of the Finder on my MacBookPro. It is mounted (I checked the disk utility) and my Finder preferences are set for the drives appear in the sidebar. It's a Toshiba 2 TB and I can access it on other MacBookPros.

  Just to check, you have the option turned on in Finder-> Preferences-> sidebar.

  Double check because there is another option in the Finder-> Preferences-> general of external drives to appear on the desktop.

  

• External hard drive not in my computer

  Hello

  I have a question on my external hard drive. It's a drive hard 2.5 "of Toshiba (1 GB).
  I used it already for a long time on my laptop (WINDOWS VISTA) and it worked perfectly until today. I plugged in my hard drive as
  usual and it does not appear on my computer. I looked on the internet and found something about research
  Start - Run diskmgmt.msc, (uitvoeren) - so I tried.
  He showed the next thing on my HARD drive:
  Disc 1
  Unknown
  931,51 GB
  Not initialated (niet geinitialiseerd)
  Unassigned (niet toegewezen)

  I didn't know what to do, so I tried some things. I pressed the right mouse button and he said "initialize disk". I pressed on it and he gave me 2 choices: MBR or GPT.
  I tried both, but they both said: data error: Ketal redunatiecontrole.
  So, I tried something different. I pressed the right button of my mouse again but this time on the black bar beside the disc information. He said "New simple volume", but I dared not go further because I didn't know if I would lose my data or not, if I would. Also, I didn't know how big the new volume should be.

  He also said that the device works properly when I press 'characteristics '.

  I don't know what to do now, and also I don't want my files to be deleted.

  Can someone help me?

  (Sorry for my bad English, if I write it in Dutch because you do not understand my problem, please tell me ;)))

  Can you please test it on another computer just to be sure, the same thing happens again?

  When you connect you hear beep sounds when the new device is connected?

• Satellite click mini external hard drive not reconising or external DVD drive

  Hi guys,.
  I recently bought a Toshiba satellite click on mini, tried to use my external hard drive, but its does not at all. Any ideas on how to solve this problem?
  It is a Seagate 250 GB hard drive. Thanks in advance

  Posted by rachel.nickells
  

  Hi guys,.
  I recently bought a Toshiba satellite click on mini, tried to use my external hard drive, but its does not at all. Any ideas on how to solve this problem?
  It is a Seagate 250 GB hard drive. Thanks in advance

  It is powered by usb? If yes the hard drive turning upward? There are the sounds of rattling of the reader?

• 3 50 PX1394U external hard drive not recognized

  I recently bought the external hard drive, Toshiba PX1394U 3 50. I followed the instructions for the installation and everything went as planned either he found material etc. and returned with the message of successful installation.

  However, when I go in my computer that there should be an icon for the external hard drive and it does not exist.

  I saw the thread, recommending using REGEN, but this has no effect on the problem - the icon still does not appear in my computer.

  I use a laptop computer from a different manufacture running Windows XP and all updates are loaded.

  I also had the same problem when loading on my desk.

  Any ideas?

  If you get the message installation was successful, you should find the HARD disk in disk management.
  Control Panel > administrative tools > computer management > disk management

  Maybe you first create a partition or format, but normally you will see players all recognized.

• PX1268E 400 GB external hard drive not detected

  Hi all

  I bought a Toshiba external hard 400GO USB Drive of DABS it delivered without a CD Rom. I plugged the USB cable into the computer, but it did not detect the drive, even after re - starts or try other USB slots. Not shown in Device Manager. I probably need this CD to complete the installation Yes? Download the installer from here?
  Any info/advice gratefully received.
  see you soon

  Hello

  I don't know if this external HARD drive needs an additional but installation CD everything must be shipped with the HARD m disk box!
  To my knowledge this HARD drive needs an external power supply. The cable must be delivered also with this HARD drive.

  So take your manual HDD and check shipped all parts! If something is missing you dealer of HARD drive!

  PS; the CD cannot be downloaded on the net!

• External hard drive not detected

  I have an external hard drive of 4 Marine to... .and a Macbook pro with the latest El Capitan... When I connect the external hard drive for Mac pro, an external hard drive can not detect, but there is a light flashing on the external hard drive. It worked well until last night after I used iTunes and went to another Mac. I still eject properly.

  Any ideas on how to solve this problem

  Try using disk utility to repair the disk. If the drive does not appear in the disk utility list, then he dies. Contact the manufacturer or supplier.

  Shut down the computer, disconnect the drive. Wait five minutes and then reboot and reconnect the drive.

• external hard drive not mounting

  Here it is the end of the year and one of my external hard drives (1 TB Iomega MacMini) decided to not mount on the desktop of my MBP 15 "

  (in early 2011).

  I read a few posts on ways to remedy by making the Kext Utility application, reset the SMC, disk repair/first aid utility, using different cables/ports.

  test another external hard drive (which is mounted using FireWire 800) etc...

  When I look at the MBP in the system report found in 'about this Mac' sees the external hard drive, that I'm putting and yet this car is not editing.

  The Iomega hard drive light flashes and there is power and the whirring of the drive, so that it seems the unit working on it of own but is no longer connection

  on my desk.

  I have Time Machine on two external hard drives, but has a reader is slightly larger than the other, the information stored on both devices is slightly different.

  So, if I can get access to the data from the Iomega hard drive and save it, then I'll be a happy camper and will update to another external drive.

  For now, I hope some of you can provide advice to solve this problem.

  I booked time at the Genius Bar, but nothing is open until next week.

  Looking forward to responses and wish all a happy new year.

  If so, try it on another Mac.  Don't rule out the possibility that the HARD disk is dead.

  Ciao.