Windows 10: External Hard Disk not showing up in File Explorer or Disk Management... PLEASE HELP ME!!!!

Hi all, I have a hard disk plugged into my windows 10 hp laptop and it's not being recognised in file explorer or other areas such as Disk Management, Device Manager, ect... I tried some fixes from google and youtube but none of them worked, I know the hard drive works as I also own a mac and did plug it in to see if it still works and it does in fact still work. Please help me someone :

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external hard drive showing up in device management but not disk management

Hi,

I recently tried to use a brand new Seagate 2TB External HD, but it is not showing up. It initially showed up, but after I tried reformatting it to exFAT32, it disappeared from the disk management list.

I then tried:

• refreshing the disk management list,
• inserting into a different USB port,
• re-starting my computer, and
• uninstalling the device from device manager/letting it refresh,

I still can't see it. There is no yellow error in the USB controller list.

I'm on Windows 10.

Intel i5-3317U @ 1.7GHz

Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

External Hard disk suddenly stopped showing in explorer

Hi everyone,

I have a 1TB WD My Passport Ultra external hard disk and it was reading and writing fine until i tried to use that hard disk as a virtual drive for fresh installing Windows 10 in my laptop. I have downloaded Media Creation Tool to create bootable installation media for my hard disk by downloading ISO file. After that I did not install that version and then when i checked my 1 TB hard disk was showing only few GB (if i remember less than 10 GB of space). When i checked in disk management total space split into 2 and i deleted one which is the less than 10 GB one i mentioned before . Now External HDD shows in Device Manager as proper device name and I'm even able to "safely remove USB drive" using the windows utility.

Now the situation is I can see the hard disk in disk management, safely remove USB drive and also in the WD utility software ( but it shows not writable). I cannot see in My Computer and neither read or write is disabled.

I tried couple of things myself by going to disk management.

I went to format and tried changing the file system to NTFS and also exFAT. but both time same result..... Please help me with that.

 

external hard disk recognition

external hard disk is listed in device manager but I cannot access the disk etc