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External Hard Drive not showing up in Disk Management and "This PC", not even unallocated..

Hey, i have been struggling with this issue and it has been aching my head for days on end. My external hard drive (512 gb) is recognized by the pc but not showing up in "This PC". I opened Disk Management and it did not pop up, not even unallocated. Zero, it was not there, not even unallocated. If it was i could have just format it and fixed it. But no, it's not showing up in disk management. ZERO. I desperately need my hard drive, i have tried it on my laptop and it shows up. So it works on other devices and pc's. Just not on my main. Not even unallocated (black) in Disk Management. ZERO. I have searched on yt and have gotten nothing. It's not even unallocated, it just shows my virtual hard drive as partition (blue) which is good but not my external.. NOT EVEN AS UNALLOCATED.. Help would work, please.. Thanks.

You say the PC recognises it, but where?

Your Disk Managment Disk 0 shows 990mb of??

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You say it's operating correctly on your laptop so you should make a backup of the files on the drive in case of drive failure or the necessity of reformating.

Try these methods first: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/external-drive-not-recognized-this-is-how-to-fix-it-in-windows/

Go to Device Manager and update the drivers under Disk drives and Universal Serial Bus (USB) controllers.

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Last updated May 9, 2024 Views 1,160 Applies to: