20 Most Recent Western Digital Caviar WD1600 (1600YD) 160 GB Hard Drive - Page 9 Questions & Answers

You can have a dead hard drive or the hard drive is not recognized by the BIOS and you may need to go into the BIOS.

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you only have USB ver 1 on that computer. Your screwed.

Ones a secret restore drive you can't use it, it has Windows on it in case of emergency renew protocol.

Hi, You have a one TB external harddrive. You plug it into your USB port. on your computer click start, click computer. question: does it show there. is there an icon? If so click open. what happens? john

check, whether data cable and power cable to the HDD are intact? then open BIOS and see whether IDE or SATA port enabled? if both fails the HDD is most probably needs replacement.

try running a check disk to check for errors. In windows command prompt type chkdsk C (substitute C for the letter of the drive). Has anything happened to these drives such as dropping that would cause it to not be readable? What format is the disk FAT or NTFS? Hit us up at our techie forum: http://forum.wasatchtechies.com/ Wasatch Techies Smartphone Tablet and Computer Repair in Utah

1st. How many hard disk have u on your computer? 2nd is it booting from the correct one? Identify your boot drive a choose THAT hard disk in the BIOS. If U don't know how to get into BIOS setup read your PC manual That what it is for.... And What does shows nothing means? Black screen with cursor? Dead Monitor? Please stated your problem clearly

check the compatibility of the external hard drive. It might not support Mac. Probabely you external hard is in NTFS format and you need to reformat/re-partition it for using it in Mac OS.

Windows must have created a partition that is 32G for the recovery media. You can go into disk manager and see the empty space.

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hello, one way is to try to recover your data using simple program like hirrens boot cd,if this will wotk then you are done if not you will need to chosse data or hdd.