PLEASE GO TO CONTROL PANEL, CLICK ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS, CLICK COMPUTER MANAGEMENT, ON LEFT PANE, UNDER STORAGE, CLICK DISK MANAGEMENT, WAIT A FEW SECONDS, MAXIMIZE PAGE,THEN SEE IF YOU CAN SEE IT. IF IT SAYS UNALLOCATED SPACE, RIGHT CLICK ,YOU WILL HAVE TO FORMAT USUALLY "NTFS". IF IT DOES NOT SAY UNALLOCATED SPACE, THEN RIGHT CLICK AND MARK PARTITION AS ACTIVE. .........HOPE THIS HELPS........JEFFXC
Turn the computer off without the external hard drive being plugged in. plug the external hard drive in a usb port, power up, the systems post boot up will find the drive and inform windows what hardware is installed. When windows boots up, it will look at all the hardware and find the external hard drive, when windows finishes booting up you should be able to see the drive in my computer.
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PLEASE GO TO CONTROL PANEL, CLICK ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS, CLICK COMPUTER MANAGEMENT, ON LEFT PANE, UNDER STORAGE, CLICK DISK MANAGEMENT, WAIT A FEW SECONDS, MAXIMIZE PAGE,THEN SEE IF YOU CAN SEE IT. IF IT SAYS UNALLOCATED SPACE, RIGHT CLICK ,YOU WILL HAVE TO FORMAT USUALLY "NTFS". IF IT DOES NOT SAY UNALLOCATED SPACE, THEN RIGHT CLICK AND MARK PARTITION AS ACTIVE. .........HOPE THIS HELPS........JEFFXC
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Turn the computer off without the external hard drive being plugged in.
plug the external hard drive in a usb port, power up, the systems post boot up will find the drive and inform windows what hardware is installed.
When windows boots up, it will look at all the hardware and find the external hard drive, when windows finishes booting up you should be able to see the drive in my computer.
If you can't access your files, target="_blank"> target="_blank">Data Recovery on Windows OS
Remember: Do not save your recovered data onto the same externalhard drive, otherwise the files you want to recover may be written over.