My hard drive don't work in the USB port on my toshiba 26el800a tv

SOURCE: Portable Hard Drive will not respond / install

how many wattage had your computer? you need to upgrade your power supply.you need also to check your bios setup on usb port

Mark Taylor

• 728 Answers
• Posted on Jan 04, 2009

SOURCE: Notebook does not recognize My Book / Western Digital hard drive

Hi,

Hi,Either the drive itself failed or you did not stop your external hard drive safely in your PC or Macintosh before unplugging either the power or data cable.

Solution 1: Determine if the drive itself has failed
For purposes of testing, connect the power adapter directly to the wall. If you do not hear or feel the drive spin up when you connect the power, the drive will need to be replaced. If the drive spins up, but nothing shows up in My Computer or in Disk Management, change the USB cable and connect the new one to another port on your Computer. If it still doesn't show up in Disk Management, try the drive on another PC to see if it shows up on that computer. If that computer still does not detect the drive by showing you the system tray icon or by listing the drive in the Device Manager after you plug in the drive, the drive is bad and needs to be replaced.
If you require data recovery services on your failed drive, here's a list of authorized preferred data recovery partners
If you find that you do need to replace your drive, see How can I replace a product under warranty?


Now!
Solution 2: Determine if the drive can be used again
If the computer does detect the drive, you can test the drive by using Windows Data Lifeguard Diagnostics. For more information on how to use the software to test the drive, please see How to test a drive for problems using Windows Data Lifeguard Diagnostics
If the software reports an error for the drive, please see Data Lifeguard Tools 11 Error Codes for a list of error codes and what they mean.

If the software shows no errors for the drive, and you do not wish to send the drive for data recovery, you can partition and format the drive so you can use it again.

For Windows XP please see How to partition and format your hard drive (from unused space) for use in Windows XP or Server 2003

IMPORTANT: To avoid corrupting or losing the data on your external hard drive you should always shut down the drive correctly before you disconnect the data cable from the drive or computer, or the power connection from the drive or the wall outlet.

Good Luck

Mark

SOURCE: External Hard Drive stopped working

u might have to format it in safe mode or buy a new one, if you try it on some one elses comp. and it works it ur comp. but it is most of the time a software issue

SOURCE: My imation USB Hard Drive once i connect to USB

Sounds like it's not getting enough power from the USB port on the laptop. Drives like this usually have a 2nd USB connector for more power from a 2nd port. If you don't have a free port, you can buy a powered hub and use that for the drive. It has its own power adaptor so will provide enough power for the drive when both drive connectors are plugged in.

SOURCE: Have A Toshiba Model HDDR320E03X

give it a try and see if it shows. if not, let me know.