Have you encountered this problem of the external hard drive connected to the Window not showing up. In fact, this is already a common problem for windows users. How to fix？Continue to read the following solutions to fix the hard drive not showing up as a problem.
This problem occurs mostly by the external hard drive corrupted or outdated, the file system crashed, the drive issue in Windows computer or dead USB ports.
With the external hard drive not showing up, the first way to try the hard drive is to connect it to another computer or connect it with other USB ports. In this process, you can judge whether it is the problem of hardware or software. If it still does not get working on your windows, Follow the next all solution to fix and recover lost data from the external hard drive with MiniTool Power Data Recovery.
Part 1. How to Fix External Hard Drive Not Recognized
Part 2. The Best External Hard Drive Data Recovery Software
Part 1
In windows, this problem is caused by many dead USB ports, driver windows conflicts, file system, dead or outdated drivers.Here are the steps you can refer to fix this issue in case of USB flash or external hard drives.
Step 1: In front of paragraph, we mentioned that it might be plugging in the USB cable in a dead USB port. Unplug the external hard drive and plug in another USB port to try. Now, check if it is present there in the My Computer window. If not, follow step 2.
Step 2 :Open the DG(Disk Management) and look for the external drive. For this, click start and then click run, press enter after typing diskmgmt.msc in the run dialog. This will open the DG Window. Now, look for the external disk in this window. In that here, you can find your drive even if it is not showing up because of no partition. If you cannot find the drive in the DG then go for step 4.
Step 3: If it is not showing up by plugging in some other port or it is not visible in the DG(Disk Management), then there might be some issue with the external drive. Check it in some other computer. Now, follow step 1 to step 3 in that computer in case the external drive is not showing up. If the problem exists with other computer also then something is wrong with the drive, otherwise follow step 5:
Step 4 If it is working in some other system but not in yours, Windows is having some problem with the drivers. To diagnose a driver problem, open the run dialog by pressing Windows + r and type “devmgmt.msc”? Now press enter. Expand your Disk Drives and look for a device having a yellow exclamation mark. This yellow exclamation mark indicates a problematic driver. Now, right click on that device and read the error message after selecting properties. This issue can resolve in following two ways:
Uninstall the driver and restart your computer.The Windows will automatically reinstall and reconfigure the driver after restarting.
Now, plug in the external drive again if the drive is still not showing up.
Step 5: Problem in partitioning and formatting can also be a cause of this issue. Partitioning and file system issues can be fixed by using DG tools. To create a new partition, right click inside the unallocated space and select New Simple Volume. You can create a new partition by following onscreen instructions. Sometimes, your drive is formatted with the ext4 file system of Linux, NTFS file system, HFS Plus file system or FAT32 file system which is not recognized by your Windows. Reformatting of the drive can resolve this issue. For this, right click on partition, select format and then select the file system. Here, it is important to know that all files in drive will be deleted. Therefore, copy files in some other system before proceeding.
Part 2
While the external hard drive got damaged and did not detected on the computer, after you fixed the problem, you should get your data back. We will introduce the best external hard drive data recovery to help you recover data back. MiniTool power data recovery is a powerful data recovery program, it can help you recover data from external hard drives easily and effectively.
Download and install MiniTool power data recovery on your windows computer. Launch it and follow the next steps to perform external hard drive data recovery on Windows computer. (If you want to recover files from external hard drives not showing up on Mac , you need MiniTool Mac Data Recovery.)
Step 1. Choose Removable Disk Drive and connect your external hard drive to the computer.
Step 3: click on the Scan button and then scan the selected external hard drive.
Step 4: browse the scan results during the scan. Alternatively, you can wait until the end of the scan and then select the files you want to restore.
Step 5. In minutes， all recovered files will display on the result. You can preview photos, videos, music, Word, Excel, PPT and PDF. Select your files and click the “Save” button to restore back.
When the external hard drive gets damaged, you can try to fix it with the solution mentioned above. Also, get your data back with MiniTool power data recovery in simple steps. Download and try it for now.
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