Windows 10: External Hard Drive works on all other machines but isn't recognised on my laptop

Discus and support External Hard Drive works on all other machines but isn't recognised on my laptop in Windows 10 Network and Sharing to solve the problem; I recently removed the hard drive from my old Lenovo laptop to use as an external hard drive. It initially worked on my laptop but suddenly started to... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Network and Sharing' started by Finatan, Apr 2, 2020.

  1. FINATAN
    Finatan Win User

    External Hard Drive works on all other machines but isn't recognised on my laptop


    I recently removed the hard drive from my old Lenovo laptop to use as an external hard drive. It initially worked on my laptop but suddenly started to only show as Local Disk E:, and when trying to access it causes PC to freeze and file explorer to crash. Disk management will not load when EHD is attached saying "connecting to virtual disk service". Under portable devices in device manager it is either shown as E:/ or WPD FileSystem Volume Driver .

    Laptop is a Lenovo V155-15API, bought in the last 6 months

    The external hard drive enclosure is made by Orico

    Hard drive is a 1Tb Toshiba mq01abd100

    Drive letter is assigned

    Tried formatting the hard drive

    I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling all EHD drivers and USB drivers.

    Tried full reset of PC, initially detected hard drive then went back to same problem.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    :)
     
    Finatan, Apr 2, 2020
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  2. TWYNOG
    twynog Win User

    External hard drive not recognised

    Thanks for this. I've done what you suggested and been through all the steps mentioned in the article. The hard drive works fine on a Mac computer, and I've managed to copy the information on it. It must be a Surface issue so I'll try to get a chat line tomorrow.
     
    twynog, Apr 2, 2020
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  3. DRAGONS BREW
    Dragons Brew Win User
    Windows & not recognising external hard drive

    I am currently running Windows 7 pro, but it won't recognise my toshiba external hard drive. The USB ports are working ok. The drive does work on a Windows 10 machine.

    Many thanks,

    Nigel
     
    Dragons Brew, Apr 2, 2020
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  4. DARRENCOOKSEY
    Darrencooksey Win User

    External Hard Drive works on all other machines but isn't recognised on my laptop

    Windows update not recognising my external hard drive

    I have an external hard drive permenently plugged in to my laptop, yet the windows update needs more space but will not recognise it. On my Disk management it is listed as 'expansion drive G'. It has 475 GB free.
     
    Darrencooksey, Apr 2, 2020
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