I have an external HDD that works on any other machine I test it on, except mine. It was previously working and recently I needed to use it and it didn't work. It appears in device manager, not in disk management. A drive letter might not be assigned to it, although I can't see it in disk management to assign a drive letter to it.
Siberian 13 Junior Poster
JorgeM 958 Problem Solver Team Colleague Featured Poster
It should at least appear as a foreign drive in device manager. Hmmm. Does your USB interface require a special driver? Checked the vendor's website for support?
Nick Evan 4,005 Industrious Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
What windows version are you using?
CimmerianX 197 Junior Poster
In device manager, does it show a yellow !?
If device manager shows it without any errors, hop over to disk management and force a rescan/refresh. IT should show up here. FYI, you can't assign a drive letter to a drive, just to a partition on the drive.
franceee 0 Newbie Poster
The problem is you most properbly have a few drive letters and the hdd is trying to use one that is already taken, go into computer manager and change the cd drive letter to z or manually give the external hdd a drive letter, it will then pick this letter up every time you plug it into the offending laptop/pc
Barber2012 0 Light Poster
windows vesion?
sheikhali449 0 Junior Poster
version of windows doesn't seem to be problem here for me..
razib8bd -2 Light Poster
may be for win version. u can promt drive latter . go= control panel>
amdimintrativ tools>computer managementdisk management>right button click
on ur "no name HHD" & select change drive latter & paths & give all informatioin
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