Disk Management - computer drive not showing up - HOW TO FIX external hard drive not showing up
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2024
- I HELP YOU RECOVER YOUR DATA, Not able to see your hard drive even after connecting it? did your SSD files disappear? Regardless of the drive related issue we are here to help you fix and get your files back!!
Index:
00:00 Intro
00:35 Examine drive for physical damage.
00:50 Make sure USB port works.
01:34 Change out the USB cord they are fragile.
02:22 Files disappeared or drive disappeared.
03:42 Use software to Recover lost data.
04:04 Search for Disk management to format drive.
04:32 Drive might have partition but no drive letter.
04:45 Drive may have wrong file system.
05:25 Help Determining file system type.
06:00 format newly purchased drive.
06:11 File System Types, NTFS, Exfat, Fat32
07:05 Tutorial - Stellar Data Recovery Software
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Step by Step tutorial:
If your drive is not appearing after you connected it there could be a variety of issue, lets try the easy fixes first.
1. First verify that the drive is not physically damaged because if it is you might want to send it to a data recovery facility, physically damaged hardware is beyond the scope of this video and requires a professional to fix. Send the drive to one of our facilities we can fix it and recover the data for you!
2. Its time to make sure your USB ports on your windows 10 computer are working properly. You can verify by connecting to a different external HDD or SSD drive to these ports to see if those usb ports are damaged or not. Most likely you might have 1 port that is either damaged or broken, I have even encountered some people who have all of there ports broken. It can happen so watch out for that.
3. Change out the USB cord to see if its simply a broken cable, most peoples cords are very badly abused and damaged. Sometimes the sheer age of the cord and normal wear and tear is responsible for the usb 3.0 cord breaking down. After the cord is bent approximately 100 times its durability is very low and it could stop working at any moment. When I purchase a new drive or cord I makes sure to never bend the cord unnecessarily and if I do bend the cord It is under limited circumstances, keep your ssd cord in a separate pouch protected and separated from everything else during travel. This is because once your USB cord breaks your external hard drive or solid state drive might be in danger of not operating properly, it could randomly disconnect while working or transferring files. This will cause you to lose time so make sure you also have a back up usb cord if and when the default cord breaks. I have personally been using my ssd cord for about a year now and I have never bent the cord, I took it out of the box in its circular rapped state and continue to use it this way.
4. If your drive is working well but your files are gone you can simply run a data recovery software like Stellar Data Recovery for Windows 10 or macOS and this can help bring your files back.
5. Its very important to understand how files are stored on the computer, I will be using analogies to explain how it works to make sure its not too complicated. When you first get your drive all the space on the drive is set to zero which means off. When you put files on your storage drive it takes up space by being physically charged in a cell, there are millions of these tiny cells and if the charge exist its a one and if the charge is absent its state is a zero. If you had all your files randomly disappear its possible the file system marked the files for deletion. Simply when a file is marked for deletion a certain part of the drive from one end to the other is marked to be deleted, it is never simply gone for ever. Because of this mark we can actually look at the length of this mark and peak inside it with the right type of data recovery solution. We can simply tell the program we are using to tell the file system to unmark these files for deletion and the files will return.
Now be careful because if your files disappear and you start dumping extra files on the drive it might start randomly storing your files in the areas that are marked for deletion, What will then happen is you might overwrite the files that are marked for deletion and then your files will actually be lost. So don't put new files on the drive tell you recover your old ones!
6. If your drive is new you might just need to format it. Plug your drive in, go to "Type here to search" type "disk management" from here you can find your drive and right click on the unallocated space and format the drive, you can choose which file system you want. 
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Hi. What if the external drive has been corrupted and is not visible in Disk Management but when trying to connect, sometimes pops up in Device Manager under Hard Drives and then disappears.
Thanks a ton. I am a Network Field Engineer and should know what I'm doing(aparrently not) 😂
... but I forgot one stupid step😂... jumped on a how to video found you! AND YOU HELPED ME!
Had to wipe volume, reallocate, other wise it would only show up in Disk Management. Thanks for the Refresher. 👍
My external hard drive does not show up on My Computer. I tried opening Disk Management but still my External HD is still not detected. I run DiskPart then typed, "list disk" and showed only one drive is online. Disk 0.
Can you give me some advices or instructions what to do?
Im having the exact same issue, did you ever end up fixing it?
Thank you! this helped me a bunch I had the un-formatted issue
Yay so glad I could help!
I can see my external HD in Disk management but can't make any changes to it, only the help option is open when I right click on the HD
Great info thank you so much
you are hopeless. you suppose to tell us a way if the disk DID NOT SHOW UP IN DISK MANAGEMENT
Plug it in another computer or laptop and wait for the driver to install. And if it shows up you can plug it back to your normal pc.
May i ask. My hdd eksternal is view in my laptop thats show all the partition. But when i open the disk managenent that's not show n i wanto formating this hdd because sometime it error maybe have somes bad sector. So, can u helpe me? 🙏
Thanks helped alot
Serge, good day, I plugged in my external and can't find it in either the disk management or the device manager. Its a seagate 1 TB I purchased from costco, I have it in a usb port that reads other drives. Its plugged in with the light on. Currently in a location where replacing cable is difficult, or trying in another computer, but ill see what I can find around here. Im also getting the chime when I plug it in. I am currently on a 2017 razor blade gtx 1060 (by the way is having screen flickering issues as well when it runs for long periods of time). Thanks for any help! Greatly appreciated.
oh wow that's funny that you have screen flicker I just got two Alienware machines and both of them seem to have screen flicker lol... and these machines are new lol..
yeah... sounds like it may continue to give you trouble off and on. I noticed with a lot of those HDD they tend to have pretty bad quality and work off and on. If you can just switch to a portable ssd and call it good because those never have any issue at all.
If you have valuable information on this drive send it to a recovery lab they might be able to fix it because some drives really do have a hardware problem that needs to be addressed.
Yoo I have the same brand of hdd. Same problem too. Connects fine and spins normally eveny lights up. But the disk management cant detect the hdd. Im using a seagate 2T expansion one. It seems the seagate offices in my area have all closed down and theres no way tok avail the warranty.
@@yashirou618 same problem, you find a fix yet?
@@TyroneGlocks nah, my hdd was from Singapore. Im from Japan, even though i bought it locally I cant have the warranty. Sucks, waste of money and data
My seagate 2T hard drive only shows in device Manger. What can I do?
Hi Serge, I had trouble getting my Toshiba external drive to show up and was following instructions on other sites that advised me to do something with a partition yet after following the instructions, my files were deleted. How can I get these files back?
You have probably formatted it...
My USB hard drive lights up when I plug it in, but is not detected by the computer or the disk management tool. Can this be repaired?
Same
Can't select or click on a drive that has stopped appearing in File Explorer. How do I get the external hard drive to appear in Windows 11 File Explorer?
so yesturday i was able to add the external drive but then when i was done playing DayZ i went to shut off my pc laptop and the external drive was still connected and the pc wont fully turn of becuase it was still connected but when i turned off pc and turned back on it wouldnt load up until i removed the drive and then i logged in and plugged it back in and now it wont show at all but when i open disk management and everytime i unplug the drive it will pop op for a spit second and say its not initialised or something like that do i need to buy a new one lol or no
Thanks 🙂
So my external drive wont come up on my laptop or desktop. It does show up in disk management but there is no size or partions. I cant do anything with it. I have tried differnt cords.
My HDD shows in the BIOS, but odes not show in disk management.. theres so unallocated data. also shows up with stella but shows as "Lost" does that mean it is corrupted?
What if the drive doesn’t show up in either like disk management or file explorer and shows up as usb can not be reckoned
Also all of my other drives that plug in show up expect for one
I'm still standing by to answer all questions and help anyone in need. Let me know guys! Good luck!
Hi Serge, Please help us as we are facing a similar issue. I have explained in the below comments.
one partition of my external drive is showing but the other partition is not showing. but it shows in disk management. help me
my drive doesn't show up in the disk management at all and it is running NTFS and no tutorials show a solution for this problem can you please help me :)
nvm i just had to make sure the cord was clean as it was dusty lol ill leave this here for anyone thats dumb like me :)
@@lifeiscode7857did u find a solution?
Hi Serge, I changed the name on my external hard drive and it stopped showing up in "my files"? Acer Chromebook
Try changing the name back to restore it function
My problem is the drive can't be detected in the disk management. But the device manager seems to detect it. However it doesn't show up or open in any way.
same , lmk if you’ve figured a way to fix it
@@sklbt- tried to avail the warranty, problem is Im in Japan and the drive is from Singapore. I bought it online from a store here in Osaka but it seems the device was manufactured from Singapore. Seagate says they cannot refund or replace any items that isnt from their respective countries so thats bullshit.
Since I was all out of options I opened the drive case and took out the hdd. I directly plugged it into my pc using an msata and the power cord for hdd.
It didn't work. Guess its dead
Hey my usb hhd is not popping up And I have a school laptop so I can’t get into disk management
Hi again, It suddenly appeared and seems to work. Have the original file name, UNTITLED
Scary Stuff!
Hi my external drive is showing on device manager.( disk drives ).but not showing on this computer or on disk management...any idea's ?
did u find the solution?
@@helium999_ Nope...sitting in my drawer...not paying someone hundreds of ££££
@@davidhampson1958 bruh i m facing the same problem with my new ssd 🥲
Hi, Thanks for the video. My External hard drive does not show in the Disk Management, so please help me on how to fix this.
Tell me about what you have tried so far so we can eliminate the things that have already been tried.
I tried using CMD, it doesn't show as well but on the adapter which connects the hard drive and the Laptop the lights blinks showing that it is working. But it doesn't show in my PC.
In the Disk Management it doesn't show but in the Device Manager under Drivers it shows. I also tried updating the driver and it showed that the driver is up to date.
Thanks for your response
@@bensonmanda235 I too tried everything! It doesn’t work at all.
@@bensonmanda235 I also have the same issue, drive is showing in the device manager but not showing under Disk management, tried everything I can. My drivers are all up to date and I have tried with another system having usb2.o , there it is showing correctly. Don't know what happened to it as if it is related to any Windows 10 update . I am using Toshiba external hard disk @Serge please help
Since it works on another system with usb2.0 there’s a chance your USB is having issues. Actually USB ports die all the time most of my machine eventually tend to have issues with ports try using a different port also if your drive works in a different machine try switching the hard drives and boot with the same drive OS but on a different machine and see if it still works, this would require you to move boot drives however it will tell you if it’s software related because sometimes windows doesn’t operate correctly.
Drivers become corrupt and the system might say that drivers are good but there not and doing a clean install to get them working correctly might be an option clean install means removing the software then reinstalling, if you just reinstall the issue may remain.
all i did was watch this video and suddenly the hard drive showed up so......... thanks, i guess
Good luck on your computer tech journey
You are talking too much and fast in practical..could not understand