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My Windows Vista PC does not show my USB external Hard Drive.. its plugged in working. It shows as a working device in the device manager.

When I first plugged it in.. Vista said it was ready to use... and it was visible in My Computer...but now its now.
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matblackexa | 3 years, 2 months ago
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I am having the same problem at the moment with a WD usb HDD. The problem as I see it so far is the HDD it's self. Mine spins up but I can't see it. I am going to remove it out of its case and try and put it in my laptop to run spinright over it. Good luck.

One more thing does it open on another computer?
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lvloose | 3 years, 2 months ago Report

I dont have another PC setup to check it now but it was working as of this morning when I copied files off my old PC to it then to try to copy those files to the new vista machine.

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orange | 3 years, 2 months ago
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I can think of two things that you can try. First might be a problem that it is no longer given a drive letter. To check this you have to go into Disk Management. You can do this by: Click Start>click Run, type compmgmt.msc >>click OK>>In the console tree on the left, click Disk Management. If it shows up at the bottom it probably does not have a drive letter and you can right click on it and assign one.

A second option to try is to go into device manager and uninstall the drivers for that particular external HD. Unplug the device, then plug it back in so that the drivers reinstall. It could be a driver issue.

If neither one of these things work, please let me know your status I will suggest a few other things to get the drives fired back up again!

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lvloose | 3 years, 2 months ago Report

When I restarted the PC today the drive appeared and Windows said it was going to repair it. So I think im cool now. Thanx for all the help.

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