Re-Format WD Hard Drive, not recognized on PC Solved/Closed

Question

My son connected a western digital 2tb hard drive to his X-Box 1 and formatted it. Is there any way I can get it to be recognised on my PC using Windows 10? When I connect it to the USB input, the PC makes a chime showing that the Hard drive is connected, but it is not recognised and does not show up in "my PC", and I cannot consequently re-format so I can use it any advice gratefully received, cheers, Neil

Boogieman_WD · Accepted Answer

Hey there, Dingbat126a.

Have you checked if the drive is recognized in Disk Management? If it is recognized, here's how partition and format it: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=Fk8woD
If that doesn't help, you could try to low level format the drive (a.k.a. Write Zeros), with DLG (Data Lifeguard). Here's how to do it: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=cCyaaM Just select "Quick Erase" instead of "Full Erase", because it is a lot faster. After that you'd have to initialize the drive, then partition and format it as if it was a brand new internal HDD. Here's how to initialize it: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=qCbEaA , as for the partition and formatting - you can refer to the link above.

Hope that helps. Please let me know how it goes.
Boogieman_WD

Re-Format WD Hard Drive, not recognized on PC

1 response

Subscribe To Our Newsletter!