Re-Format WD Hard Drive, not recognized on PC

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Dingbat126a Posts 2 Registration date Thursday January 21, 2016 Status Member Last seen January 21, 2016 - Jan 21, 2016 at 05:55 AM
Boogieman_WD Posts 275 Registration date Friday October 10, 2014 Status Member Last seen October 19, 2016   - Jan 25, 2016 at 10:36 AM
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
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Boogieman_WD Posts 275 Registration date Friday October 10, 2014 Status Member Last seen October 19, 2016   37
Jan 21, 2016 at 10:36 AM
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
Dingbat126a Posts 2 Registration date Thursday January 21, 2016 Status Member Last seen January 21, 2016
Jan 21, 2016 at 10:59 AM
Boogieman_WD, you are a star, worked perfectly, really appreciate the advice, thank you so much......
Ambucias Posts 47311 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 11,166
Jan 21, 2016 at 05:01 PM
Congrats Boogieman!
Boogieman_WD Posts 275 Registration date Friday October 10, 2014 Status Member Last seen October 19, 2016   37
Jan 25, 2016 at 10:36 AM
I'm glad I was able to help guys.

Cheers! :)