legunner Posted May 30, 2011 Posted May 30, 2011 I have a WD 500gb Hard drive. It is not being recognised on my Computer.I've found it in the Device Manager, but it will not show up in My Computer so i can't access the device.Any help? I don't mind if i have to format it. Quote
Cupe Posted May 30, 2011 Posted May 30, 2011 If it's brand new you have to format itotherwise welcome to my last 2TB of data Quote
legunner Posted May 30, 2011 Author Posted May 30, 2011 nah it's not brand new it just stopped being noticed one day..any way of me being able to format it now? Quote
Gandy Posted May 30, 2011 Posted May 30, 2011 if you have more than one external device plugged in, it mite be trying to use a drive letter thats already assigendif thats the case, assign it like drive X: or something temporarily, then it will show up in my computer Quote
Cupe Posted May 30, 2011 Posted May 30, 2011 try different usb portssometimes mine don't seem to be powerful enoughtry on another pc etc Quote
legunner Posted May 30, 2011 Author Posted May 30, 2011 's all good i plugged it into my mac and it worked, perhaps im just abit PC illiterate. Quote
SolDios Posted May 30, 2011 Posted May 30, 2011 What format is the drive formatted in?e.g. fat 32, NTFS, OSX extended ? Quote
Cupe Posted May 30, 2011 Posted May 30, 2011 it's just sometimes some of the usb ports (ie the front ones) aren't powerful enough to kick it over sometimesthat's what i've found anyway Quote
Jaz Posted May 30, 2011 Posted May 30, 2011 may seem to simple but try a different USB port, ive had hardware not work because some random software stops it working in 1 and only 1 usb slot Quote
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