Thursday, May 25, 2017

External Hard Disk not showing up


I have got an external hard drive Seagate 320 Gb that I use inside a Trust 3,5' case.


Device is not showing up in Computer folder, nor in Disk management.


I tried to look for partition with Active @Partition and Runtime GetDataBack software but the device is not found by these softwares.


Any hint on how to format this HDD in order to use it again? (no data save needed)


Thanks 4 all your help!!!


P.S. Ask for any additional info


Answer



Have you tried another case? Or make sure it's plugged into a USB 2.0 slot, might be not enough power going to the drive.


You can try removing the drive from the case and plugging it directly into the pc into a free SATA/IDE port (whatever your drive is). The BIOS if nothing else will pick up the drive. If it does, FDISK should be able to delete the partition, create a new and format the drive if need be (Directly from DOS, not a CMD prompt within Windows)


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