help! my laptop recognize my external hdd but its not showing in my computer, then i go to computer management and my hdd is not initialized. im worried that my files in hdd will be deleted after i initialized the disk. Can i recover the files?
renren.palomer 0 Newbie Poster
rubberman 1,355 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso Featured Poster
How is the drive connected? USB I presume? Have you tried rebooting the computer with the drive attached. That will often fix this issue. If you initialize the drive, you WILL lose all your data.
renren.palomer 0 Newbie Poster
i've tried that also, but nothing happened.
CimmerianX 197 Junior Poster
What format is the External disk partition? FAT32? EXT4? MAC Journaled?
mouaadable 0 Junior Poster in Training
right click o my computer , then manage and click on disk management
if the Drive is showing up then it's working
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