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I have a 121 Gb drive which is detected by device manager, but does not show in My Computer. In partitio magic V8.0, it shows this disc as a dynamic disk
In device manager, local disk manager, right-click the disk (not the empty area). Select convert to basic disk. it will be done after a warning/confirmation/possibly restart. Now right-click the empty area, create a simple volume or primary partition.
Just right click on my computer go to manage and then go to stogae and then select disk managment it will show the list of hard drive connceted select your drive according to the size. format it and it will show you in my computer.
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Go to Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management Then go into Disk Management. Hopefully you will see a drive with a capacity of about 480 GB (plus or minus), that's your disk. Right click on it and select change drive letter and change the drive letter to something that isn't in use. If that doesn't work or it doesn't show up, go into the Device Manager from the Computer Management screen and see if there is anything under disk drives with a yellow or red symbol next to it. If so, right click it, select uninstall, then unplug the disk drive and plug it back in.
The brand of your HD is Verbatim, so it should not show up as Toshiba in the Device Manager. Your computer is detecting another device.
Please do not rely on the Device Manager, you have to check the Disk Management instead. If the HD did not show up in the Disk Management, try connecting the HD into another USB ports of the problem computer. It could only be the USB ports of the problem computer is bad.
How many computers do you have? If you have 3 PCs and only one computer is having a problem, then you might need to update the USB driver of the problem computer.
Is it formatted ? Does it have a drive letter associated to it? If not then either format it (right click on My computer -> click Manage -> click Disk Management. Now right click the drive if it is showing there and either create partitions and/or format it if it not already formatted.
If it's already formatted, and you just need to assign a drive letter, then in Disk Management, right click the drive and click Change Drive Letter and Paths and assign an unused drive letter, say Z.
Close Computer Management and open My Computer. The new drive should show up now.
Maybe it might be that the hard drive is dead , you can test if it works by connecting it to another computer or device (ps3) if it works (reads/writes) you might want to try this http://www.aeonity.com/trialerror .You can burn a live cd (Operating system on cd) and this might detect your drive if its a usb driver problem (used to detect USB devices).
you probably need to install some drivers for it before it if you see a question mark in your device manager. wich one i don't know, have to google it yourself. no question mark? then i can't help you at all and am sry for that. gl
Extreme temperatures, either very hot or very cold, can certainly cause damage to your External Hard Drive. Based upon your description, it sounds like the hard drive enclosure has been damaged. This would explain why device manager can not recognize it. Your hard drive is plug-and-play with Windows XP, so no drivers are necessary. Have you tried plugging it into another computer?
If your hard drive casing has malfunctioned, then retrieving your data is as simple as putting the hard drive inside another hard drive enclosure. Hard drive enclosures are available at any local computer store, and also available on the I/O Magic website. Make sure to get the right size enclosure. Your hard drive has a 3.5" hard drive inside it, which is a standard desktop hard drive.
If you put your hard drive in another enclosure and it still isn't recognized by multiple computers, then the hard drive inside the casing has probably been damaged, and I would recommend contacting a data recovery specialist. Have a nice day,
Go into Control Panel go into 'Administrative Tools', double click 'Computer Management' click on 'Disk Management'. Do you see the hard drive?? Right click on the drive and select 'Format'. If this didn't help, write back and we'll find another way.
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