Not recognise my portable hard drive

A computer that is running Windows XP cannot detect a USB flash drive, an Apple iPod, or an external hard disk drive

To fix this problem, delete the UpperFilters registry value and the LowerFilters registry value. These values may cause access problems. (from Microsoft website)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925196#letmefixit

Hi Good day!! Check the cable maybe your cable has been damage..

The drive has failed, Contact the manufacturer for a replacement and if u need the data back, contact a data recovery company :)

Does the drive show in Device Manager? Right click on 'My Computer' and select properties, the open device manager.. Navigate down to Disk Drives or Hard Drives, click on the plus sign and see if your drive is listed. If it is, then right click on the drive name and open properties for the drive. Click on the 'Volumes' tab and hit the 'Populate Button'. It may be the disk just needs initialising, then reformatting before you can use it. If it does need initializing, a wizard should appear to guide you through the process!
If this doesn't solve your problem, try using a different USB cable and/or USB ports on your computer, and ensure to unplug all other USB devices other than keyboard & mouse.

thats because you need to update your computer...or you need drivers in order for your usb to work

use it on a differnet usb port
these portable hard drives have some issues with 1.1 usb ports

Hey,
try connecting it o another computer and check
if not yet, use only the WD USB transfer wire supplied in the box.
because WD External HDD only recongize its own USB and none other.

Ok. Well this is easy! your hard drive is formatted in NTFS, ps3 wont recognize that. it needs to be fat32 find an XP machine not a vista machine.

download Swiss Army Knife and format the drive in fat32. you will loose ALL information in your external. you will need to back up anything you want to save and put it back after the format.

good luck!

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If you cannot get the USB connection working, you can recover the data by taking the drive out of the case and connecting it directly to the PC as a second drive.  Make sure the jumper settings are correct for use as a second drive.  You can get the drive information and jumper settings from the web site of the drive manufacturer.