Ry connecting the external hard drive to another computer to recover/backup your data.
When
you have such a large capacity hard drive, it pays to have a second
large capacity hard drive to backup your data in the event of the other
hard drive dying.Hard drives do fail especially if you accidently drop
it.
SOURCE: Hard drive isn't recognized
Great advice tech8 !!! That worked for me. I was frustrated with this problem for the last month. It looks like my chief problem was that the drive letter previously being used for this HDD was assigned to a different network path. It looks like it didn't automatically give a new drive letter. Your solution worked great!
THANK YOU!
JR
SOURCE: Computer doesn't recognize my external HD
Test the HD on a different computer, if you get same problem, then the
disk can be faulty. Backup your data ASAP, then replace either exernal
hard disk enclosure, or the hard disk drive, depending on what is
faulty.
If you get no problem on other computers, then the
system is causing the problem. In that case try doing a system restore
to a recent date before the problem started. If that does not work,
then you will have to reinstall the system.
SOURCE: Externals not recognized by computer.
Go to your control panel open up 'administrative tools' Open Computer management, then choose disc management instead of device manager. Make sure that you have the drives pluged in and connected before you do that. All connected drives formatted or not that are in working order should show up under disc management. If they are not showing up they are not compatable. Make sure that they are marked as active and format them if they need to be formatted. Do so by right clicking on the drive in the disc management window.
SOURCE: my hard drive suddenly started beeping and stopped working
Your drive has failed. to try to get back some of your items put the drive in the freezer for a day. the chill will make the heads condense enough for about 3 hours of use for emergency backup.
SOURCE: I bought a
Try connecting the SATA drive as a "slave" drive in some other computer, to see if it works at all.
If not, exercise the warranty and replace it.
Click Start
Right-mouse click "My Computer"
Click "Manage"
Click "Storage"
Click "Disk Management"
If the disk is working, it should appear in "Disk Management" as an "uninitialized" device.
Initialize it.
Connect the external hard drive to the host computer.
This connection is most commonly made with a USB-style connector.
However, eSATA connectors are becoming more prevalent in the general computing market.
Plug the external hard drive into an electrical power source.
Navigate to the external hard drive listing under the "My Computer" window.
This is opened by double-clicking the "Computer" or "My Computer" desktop icon.
Double-click the external hard drive drive icon listing and navigate to the files to be copied using the provided navigation window.
Right-click the files to be transferred and select the "Copy" heading from the context menu.
Navigate to the destination folder on the host computers hard drive using the same navigation window.
Right-click within the folder and select the "Paste" option.
This begins the process of transferring the files to the computers hard drive.
This process takes several minutes to several hours, depending on the size of the files and the speeds of the hard drives.
A progress bar will appear to keep the user informed of the process completion status.
hope this helps
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