WD My Passport not recognized as drive external HARD on windows 7

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  Well this device Wesern Digital is recognized in 'My Computer' when connected to a usb port, it does not appear under in the Windows Media Player synchronization options, therefore, I can not save my music library, for which it was intended. Any suggestions?

  Hello

  If I understand correctly you have a problem with the Windows Media Player synchronization with WD external drive. Do not worry, I'm here to help you with this question.

  I would like to know more information on the issue, so that we can help you better.

  1 is it limited to WD external drive or with all external drives?

  2. were you able to sync external devices successfully earlier?

  3. have you made changes on the computer before this problem?

  Let us try the following methods and check if it works for you.

  Method 1:

  Try the steps in the following Microsoft support article.

  Solve problems in Windows Media Player:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/troubleshoot-problems-in-Windows-Media-Player

  Method 2:

  Disable the Windows Firewall and then try to synchronize and check if you are able to synchronize.

  Enable or disable the Windows Firewall:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/turn-Windows-Firewall-on-or-off

  Warning: deactivate temporarily the Antivirus\Firewall, then check the issue. Sometimes they may be in conflict. Please make sure that you enable the antivirus software\firewall after the test to keep your computer protected.

  Method 3:

  Try to manually synchronize Windows Media Player.

  Sync manually in Windows Media Player:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/sync-manually-in-Windows-Media-Player

  For more information, see the following articles in Microsoft Help.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/set-up-a-device-to-sync-in-Windows-Media-Player

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/Windows-Media-Player-sync-frequently-asked-questions

  Please reply with the status of the issue, so that we can better help you.

• Why my computer will not pick up my external hard drive?

  Why my computer will not pick up my external hard drive?
  using Windows 7 sp1

  Original title: usb

  Hello Fred,.

  Windows 7 sometimes has trouble recognizing external drives connected to the USB ports. There are a number of possible corrections for this.

  1. make sure you that the USB port in question works with another device, that you know works. For example, take a mouse that you know doesn't work and plug it into the USB port is connected. The mouse still works? If Yes, go to #2.

  2 do a reset power coercive.

  1. Unplug the power cord. Then (on a laptop) remove the battery.
  2. Unplug all USB devices.
  3. Leave it alone - don't connect or reconnect the devices for several minutes.
  4. After several minutes plug the power supply cord.
  5. Then install the battery.
  6. Turn on the computer and restart as normal without plug any USB device.
  7. Connect your devices one at a time and let them install as usual.

  The external hard drive works now? If not, go to #3.

  3. I have and others have used an application of part 3, the freeware Aomei Partition Wizard, download here: http://download.cnet.com/AOMEI-Partition-Assistant-Standard-Edition/3000-18512_4-75118871.html?tag=mncol;1 (only use the Direct download link). Once installed, you need only browse the external drive and select it, then click Properties. That's all; simply choose the drive is enough to get the drive recognized by Windows 7, no formatting required.

  I would like to know if one of these methods works for you. After back here with your results.

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• Historical files Windows 8 will not recognize the new external hard drive

  I just bought a new laptop (Sony Vaio) with Windows 8Pro (System op 64-bit, Intel I7, 1THD).  One of the reasons is that I have approached Win8, is I liked the concept of the new 'File History' backup utility  I started to use the computer with an ext WD My Guide of the HD and the history of the files seemed to work.  Then the drive external hard went wrong and I just bought a new WD My Passport 2 t ext HD.  Historical files will not recognize this drive.  He keeps asking the old drive.  When I attached the new drive and go to the screen "Select drive", it says "no usable drives are detected.  Please connect a drive... "I know that the drive is there because I see under 'My computer' and I can copy files to it.  But the history of the files do not recognize.  WD, I called and they helped me to update drivers and even made a update firmware on the drive, but nothing is done.  I tried several fixes suggested in a few links Microsoft 'how file history works... '. «, «What to do if the file history works more...» ", etc, but all without success. The tech also remote BestBuy Geek squad my computer and tried EVERYTHING and could not get it to succeed.  BTW, it's not the HD post because put us on another computer to WIN 8 and Hx file found immediately.  Tech people thought that it was a deep registry with Win 8 problem and their only suggestion was to reimage my computer with the original recovery disk.  But who is going to cost me an arm and a leg.

  I'm not very tech savvy, so I know there must be something very simple, I'm do wrong or overlooking and I hope that some dear soul on this forum or someone from Microsoft can give me an idea or two.  Thank you very much

  I was having this same problem, but then noticed a presentation text easy to miss in the historical files tool that says that the disc "cannot be a part of a library" or something like that. In my case, I had files on my external hard drive that have been included in several libraries... and none that I really used, so I removed the files (and deleted the libraries for good measure). A fast system restart later, and my player does not appear.

  I don't know why MS did not propose it again for this thread as the more obvious thing to check, but there you have it. Something simple and quick to check that could save you some frustration.

• drive external hard when it is connected to the computer says hd not formatted want format you?

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  Hello!

  I have such a problem: I work with my external case alu Toshiba 3.5 HDD 500 GB and after awhile of copy of the files in the laptop it disappears and appears this luckily device recognized.
  Can it be caused by not enough power in the USB port?

  THX for any help or the workaround

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• Drive external HARD encrypted in ExFat?

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  I have a new drive external HARD I need to use on a Mac and a PC. I need to access the same files (data analytics), so I don't want to make 2 partitions and have duplicate files. What I've read, it seems that ExFat is the best option for this (they are large files, so that the FAT will not work). My work, however, requires external hard drives to encrypt. When I tried to put it on my MacBook Pro (El Capitan), however, I received an error.

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  I can't access the files from an internal hard drive that has been converted to drive external hard after the motherboard is dead. I think that my files are still there, as shown in the volume of the player volume ~ 500 gb which is almost completely full. But I can't access most files, including documents and settings. When I took 'ownership' of the folder, I could open the TI but then it showed everything that was in my documents and settings on the computer file I used to open it, not the documents of the car.

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  If you want to access your files from the old hard drive - you need to look in the right place.  If the old system was "Windows 7", "Documents and Settings" is the * wrong * place to look and "Users" would be the place to go.

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  Documents and settings to WIndows Vista/Windows 7 is a symbolic link and would lead to what you see if you tried to use it.

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