Seagate external hard drive not showing up in my computer.
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sherdil
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Yogi - Dec 17, 2014 at 07:16 PM
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mackyy20
Oct 17, 2014 at 06:23 AM
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Oct 17, 2014 at 06:23 AM
In cmd> diskpart> list volume it does not show up. (screenshot attached)
In Device Manager it gets detected. (screenshot attached)
In disk management it shows up as 'unallocated'. If I initialize it, will I lose all data on the drive? It had 4 partitions. (screenshot attached)
In Device Manager it gets detected. (screenshot attached)
In disk management it shows up as 'unallocated'. If I initialize it, will I lose all data on the drive? It had 4 partitions. (screenshot attached)
R2D2_WD
Oct 13, 2014 at 08:31 AM
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Oct 13, 2014 at 08:31 AM
Hi sherdil,
Unfortunately, if you initialize the drive, you will lose all the data. I would advise you to reinstall the drivers from Device Manager and search for some updates from the manufacturer's web page. Try the device on another PC and with another USB cable. If nothing helps, I would try to plug the drive, booting from a Linux Live CD.
Hope this helps
Unfortunately, if you initialize the drive, you will lose all the data. I would advise you to reinstall the drivers from Device Manager and search for some updates from the manufacturer's web page. Try the device on another PC and with another USB cable. If nothing helps, I would try to plug the drive, booting from a Linux Live CD.
Hope this helps
sherdil
Oct 16, 2014 at 03:47 AM
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Oct 16, 2014 at 03:47 AM
Before installing this windows XP I had installed Ubuntu 9.10. External hard disk was working fine with this Ubuntu and my XP before it. I didn't like Ubuntu so I installed XP again after formatting my internal hard drive. Now external hard drive doesn't show up in 'My Computer' but when I run Ubuntu live cd (try Ubuntu without any change to computer) external hard drive works fine and I can see everything in my external hard drive. So all my data is still in there.
My internal hard drive is 80GB and external is 320GB so there is no way I can copy my data from external hard drive to some place else while on Ubuntu.
How can I get it to work on XP?
My internal hard drive is 80GB and external is 320GB so there is no way I can copy my data from external hard drive to some place else while on Ubuntu.
How can I get it to work on XP?
R2D2_WD
Oct 16, 2014 at 05:11 AM
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Oct 16, 2014 at 05:11 AM
Well, I would say that it is rather common a drive to be seen in Linux. Actually, that is why I recommended you those Live CDs as a troubleshooting step. While in XP, try to assign a drive letter to the drive, using the command prompt command DISKPART.
Type "diskpart", then "list volume", "select volume n" (where n is the number of the external drive), "assign letter =X" ( where X is the desired letter, which should not be in use).
I would check the latest drivers for some compatibility issues with XP.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2003/cc757491(v=ws.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN - more about diskpart command
Type "diskpart", then "list volume", "select volume n" (where n is the number of the external drive), "assign letter =X" ( where X is the desired letter, which should not be in use).
I would check the latest drivers for some compatibility issues with XP.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2003/cc757491(v=ws.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN - more about diskpart command
sherdil
Oct 16, 2014 at 08:41 AM
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Oct 16, 2014 at 08:41 AM
I already posted screenshot of command prompt window with diskpart. It does not list the external hard drive. So I cannot assign letters.
R2D2_WD
Oct 16, 2014 at 10:06 AM
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Oct 16, 2014 at 10:06 AM
Have you tried reinstalling the HDD drivers from Device Manager? Sometimes this resolves the issue.
sherdil
Oct 16, 2014 at 03:17 PM
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Oct 16, 2014 at 03:17 PM
I never installed any drivers for HDD ever. How to do that?
There is option to disable, uninstall and update driver only.
I clicked update driver, nothing happened because I don't have the drivers, they get installed automatically.
There is option to disable, uninstall and update driver only.
I clicked update driver, nothing happened because I don't have the drivers, they get installed automatically.
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Oct 13, 2014 at 10:11 PM
https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
download this partition tool to check the drive .download the cd bootable version..
As it shows in disk manager the drive has been wiped of all partitions leaving a blank drive.that is why it showing as unallocated space and until a partition is created on the drive it won't mount in windows.
to try retrive don't create any partition on the drive once written it will wipe the partition you want to recover.
https://www.easeus.com/ad/partition-recovery.htm?gclid=CJrCgpmIq8ECFUSUvQodkjAAeQ
this tool will retrive partitions but I haven't used it..
download this partition tool to check the drive .download the cd bootable version..
As it shows in disk manager the drive has been wiped of all partitions leaving a blank drive.that is why it showing as unallocated space and until a partition is created on the drive it won't mount in windows.
to try retrive don't create any partition on the drive once written it will wipe the partition you want to recover.
https://www.easeus.com/ad/partition-recovery.htm?gclid=CJrCgpmIq8ECFUSUvQodkjAAeQ
this tool will retrive partitions but I haven't used it..
sherdil
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Oct 16, 2014 at 03:47 AM
Before installing this windows XP I had installed Ubuntu 9.10. External hard disk was working fine with this Ubuntu and my XP before it. I didn't like Ubuntu so I installed XP again after formatting my internal hard drive. Now external hard drive doesn't show up in 'My Computer' but when I run Ubuntu live cd (try Ubuntu without any change to computer) external hard drive works fine and I can see everything in my external hard drive. So all my data is still in there.
My internal hard drive is 80GB and external is 320GB so there is no way I can copy my data from external hard drive to some place else while on Ubuntu.
How can I get it to work on XP?
My internal hard drive is 80GB and external is 320GB so there is no way I can copy my data from external hard drive to some place else while on Ubuntu.
How can I get it to work on XP?
sherdil
Oct 16, 2014 at 03:49 AM
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Oct 16, 2014 at 03:49 AM
UPDATE:
Before installing this windows XP I had installed Ubuntu 9.10. External hard disk was working fine with this Ubuntu and my XP before it. I didn't like Ubuntu so I installed XP again after formatting my internal hard drive. Now external hard drive doesn't show up in 'My Computer' but when I run Ubuntu live cd (try Ubuntu without any change to computer) external hard drive works fine and I can see everything in my external hard drive. So all my data is still in there.
My internal hard drive is 80GB and external is 320GB so there is no way I can copy my data from external hard drive to some place else while on Ubuntu.
How can I get it to work on XP?
Before installing this windows XP I had installed Ubuntu 9.10. External hard disk was working fine with this Ubuntu and my XP before it. I didn't like Ubuntu so I installed XP again after formatting my internal hard drive. Now external hard drive doesn't show up in 'My Computer' but when I run Ubuntu live cd (try Ubuntu without any change to computer) external hard drive works fine and I can see everything in my external hard drive. So all my data is still in there.
My internal hard drive is 80GB and external is 320GB so there is no way I can copy my data from external hard drive to some place else while on Ubuntu.
How can I get it to work on XP?
Dec 17, 2014 at 07:16 PM
Did you get any solution?