Windows 10: New Seagate Eternal Hard drive not showing in Windows 10

http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/externa...on-hard-drive/

New Seagate Eternal Hard drive not showing in Windows 10. I never formatted it but I did copy it's files on to c drive the application only asks for you to register it. I went to clone my disk restarted and failed now I can't see it at all! Any help welcome thank you in advance.

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External HD not recognized by Win 10

I have a Toshiba laptop with a windows 10 upgrade... it is not recognizing my Seagate STAE108 1t external hard drive. It doesn't even show a drive for the Seagate.

 

USB Connected Seagate portable HD

Windows 10 Seagate USB connected Drive:

I changed the hard drive label as directed by one of the community responses, and as directed by a Seagate support site deleted Seagate Manager as it is not compatible with Windows 10 and there are no plans to make it so. After deleting Seagate Manager
and rebooting Windows 10, Seagate said I should be able to copy and paste my files to their HD. I was able to do that.

When trying to use File History, so that I could make the Seagate drive a backup drive, File History points to the old drive letter that I had, even through Computer/Disk Management shows the changed drive letter. I was able to redirect it to the new drive
letter. This new drive letter is shown on my desk top for that Seagate drive. I still cannot access that drive with Windows 10 for backup even though I was able to copy and past files to the Seagate drive.

I still want to be able to have the Seagate drive as file backup but cannot as yet do that. I'm looking for some ideas how to do that.

 

Does it show up in Disk Management? If so, can you assign a driver letter to it?

 

It shows up on devices and printers and the 2 downloads from support menu in that link. In Disk Management I have Disk 0 Disk 1 and cd-Rom 0
Also shows as being connected in connected devices. Downloaded over metred connections was off turned that on still can't see it.

 

Disk 1 is almost certainly your external drive if you have no other HDD. Can you tell from the size of disk1 if it is a match? Does it have a drive letter assigned to it?

 

I took it back mate and got my money back. Getting new one tomorrow. Basically, do I have to format any hard drive before I use it? Because I have not done it on my other 2 drives and they are seagates too. And I have no problem with them. Thanks for the help.

 

No problem. These external drives are usually pre-formatted for Windows as you have found before, however, check on the information supplied with your new drive - it should tell you if you need to do anything.

 

Thank you mate. It's only thing was to do was to register it and I couldn't be bothered doing it. Now, I am scared the same thing will happen tomorrow lol.