Hard drives don't require any special drivers. Windows/Linux/Mac can recognize them with their respective built-in drivers. If your computer isn't detecting it. One of a few things
I can post a video if needed to fix the first three
SOURCE: portable hard drive won't show on desktop
it could be defective cause you might have taken the stick off while it was loading or if not you can plug it again and try opening it through My computer/ Removable disk:
SOURCE: verbatim Portable hard drive ? download entire desktop with applications ?
Don't know why you might want to do this, but assuming the portable drive is equal to or bigger than your system drive (C:), I would recommend you check out Ghost software (not sure of name) but this will put you on it. With Ghost, you make a mirror image of an entire hard drive. I used it to make multiple copies of entire PC's for classroom use.. i.e. Load one PC with all the OS and program software, and then connect other drives to the "Master" one at a time, until I had a classroom full of identical systems. Had to pull the drives, but since yours is already external, connectivity would be the only issue. USB should work, I would think.
SOURCE: I hve a Verbatim USB Portable Hard Drive with
usualy it means that it has an error,try checking that the cables to the drive are connected properly if there all fine try shutting the usb drive off and turing it back on after 3 min.
you should turn your PC off also and restart it.
if that does not work you need to post more information about your PC and periferal devices.
SOURCE: Verbatim portable hard drive not recognized by XP - works in 2000
Try it is different USB port of your PC. It worked for me.
Farhan
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