While using the
external hard drive , we may usually face the problem that it cannot be
detected in computer. What happened and how to make it show up in the computer?
There are many reasons for your external hard drive cannot be recognized by
computer. For example, the USB cable and port problem, file system issues,
partition and driver problems. To make the external hard drive can be detected by
computer, you can try to check these errors.
Check
if the external hard driver show up in disk management
After plugging the
external hard drive into your computer, you can open the disk management to
know if it is listed here. If it is here, it means that the computer has
recognized it. But you cannot find it in My computer, you need to fix it. The
way to make this drive recognized by computer is to format the drive. The
problem is that formatting will delete all the data on the drive. Therefore, before
you perform a format, you need to use a data recovery software to retrieve all
the data on the external hard drive.
After you have gotten
all the data back, you can format it in disk management. You just need to
right-click it to choose format, and then select the volume label, file system
and allocation size.
The
external hard drive does not show up in disk management
If the external hard
drive is not listed in the disk management, there are several possible problems
which can cause this. First, there is a problem in the USB cable or the USB
port. You can unplug the drive and plug it to other USB ports or other
computer. Second, there is a driver problem. If the drive still does not work
on other computer you should check the drivers. Open the Device management, in
the Disk drivers part, if you can find a yellow exclamation, you have a driver
problem. You can try to fix thie problem by the error message. Third, you have
a dead external drive. If your external hard drive has dead, you can take it to
a data recovery company to repair. If the specialist also cannot fix it, you
have to replace a new one.
Once the drive has been
recognized, you can run the data
recovery tool to restore the files. Sometimes, your external hard drive may
be recognized but inaccessible. That does not matter, as long as it show up in
disk management, the recovery tool can scan and recover the lost files from
here.
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