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.
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?
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. 👍
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?
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 :)
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? 🙏
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?
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.
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.
@@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
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
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?
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 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.
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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.
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.
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?
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. 👍
Thank you! this helped me a bunch I had the un-formatted issue
Yay so glad I could help!
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?
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
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?
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
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
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? 🙏
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.
Thanks 🙂
Great info thank you so much
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?
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
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 again, It suddenly appeared and seems to work. Have the original file name, UNTITLED
Scary Stuff!
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
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
Hey my usb hhd is not popping up And I have a school laptop so I can’t get into disk management
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
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...
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 🥲
You are talking too much and fast in practical..could not understand
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.