Windows 10: External Hard disk suddenly stopped showing in explorer

Discus and support External Hard disk suddenly stopped showing in explorer in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; 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... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by samuob, Jan 25, 2017.

  1. samuob Win User

    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.



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    :)
     
    samuob, Jan 25, 2017
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    Andre Da Costa, Jan 25, 2017
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    I have an external seagate 1Tb hardisk. Suddenly it has stopped working on my windows pc. The system detects the hard disk but hangs while attempting to open it whereas it is working perfectly fine in my Mac.
     
    chetanrawat1, Jan 25, 2017
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  4. Bree New Member

    External Hard disk suddenly stopped showing in explorer

    Welcome to TenForums!

    To see the drive in File Explorer it needs to have a drive letter assigned to it. Your screenshot of disk management shows that it doesn't have one yet. In disk management, right-click on your 'Disk 1 New volume' and select 'Change Drive Letter and Paths...' to add one.
     
  5. samuob Win User
    Thank you for the reply.. and i tried this and the problem is solved now... Thank you so much.
     
    samuob, Jan 29, 2017
    #5
  6. Bree New Member
    Glad to have helped, @samuob
     
    Bree, Apr 5, 2018
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