Laptop won't detect hard drive

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savamatte Posts 1 Registration date Friday 7 November 2014 Status Member Last seen 7 November 2014 - 7 Nov 2014 à 17:38
R2D2_WD Posts 3606 Registration date Monday 1 September 2014 Status Member Last seen 20 February 2017   - 11 Nov 2014 à 08:04
I have a Sony HD-E1 iTB hard drive that my laptop (Dell, windows 7, 64-bit) won't detect. I've tried going to my computer-disk management but it won't detect there either. The light shows on my HD when I plug it in and other external drives work fine.
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Ambucias Posts 47312 Registration date Monday 1 February 2010 Status Moderator Last seen 28 March 2026 11,166
7 Nov 2014 à 17:54
Hi

Perhaps you can try this:

Go to the BIOS setup, & change the disk controller setting from AHCI to IDE. might worth the try.
R2D2_WD Posts 3606 Registration date Monday 1 September 2014 Status Member Last seen 20 February 2017   155
11 Nov 2014 à 08:04
Hi there,

I would recommend you to go to Device Manager, uninstall HDD drivers, reboot and plug the drive back in. Let it install drivers and check again in Disk Management.

Hope this helps