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How to Fix External Hard Drive Not Showing Up

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When connect your drive to a PC with a USB port and find the external hard drive isn’t showing up, how to fix? This video will show you three feasible methods to fix external hard drive not showing up in computer. (You can check the Timestamps below for specific methods with detailed steps)

1. Check the Drive in Disk Management 01:19
2. Initializing a New External Drive 02:19
3. Assigning a Drive Letter to an External Drive 03:10
4. Troubleshooting Broken USB Ports 04:35
5. Check for Driver Errors: 05:19

Following those methods above should fix most of the issues of external hard drive not recognized. If you’ve tried the external hard drive with multiple computers and it never shows up in the Disk Management window after these steps, the drive is probably broken.

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39 thoughts on “How to Fix External Hard Drive Not Showing Up”

  • The problem with mine is, it said Media Write Protected pls Help

  • I dont have new simple volume

  • Thank you man! issue has been solved. Quick and straight

  • Dude none of the options worked for me. I right clicked and all the options are greyed out. Please help

  • Hello Michael. My hard drive is not showing in File Explorer but shows under Device Manager and Disk Management. However, the drive has a red arrow pointing down in the latter and shows uninitialised and unallocated on the left and right respectively. When I right-click in the unallocated space, every option but Properties is greyed out. When I right click on the small tab adjacent to it, the first option, Initialise, is also greyed out. Only an option called Offline is visible and accessible.

  • My external SSD is showing up as a USB is this supposed to happen? Please respond I need help with this, anybody would help

  • format and change driver letter and paths is greyed out for me, help please

  • What if it doesn't show up on Disk Utility sir? Plz help. The hard drive is powered on. Just not showing up.

  • this works thankyou so much i recommend this video to anyone having troubles with their external hard drive

  • didn't show me how to initialize a new external drive just jumped right onto the window, didn't show me how to do anything

  • i litteraly love u im blowing u kisses through the screen thank you so much i struggled w this problem for 2 days now thank you for helping me not stress anymore

  • Hey,
    Can you please help me. I have a big problem with my external hard drive. It doesn't work on my computer even after doing all of your solutions. If I try to initialize the disk it says that "The request failed due to a fatal device hardware error" and it's new so it doesn't have any kind of harm done to it, I've been regularly taking care of it. And if i try to initialize it with GPT then it says the same. I bought the hard drive like two months ago and it was new, yet it didn't work. I tried putting it into another computer and it worked fine. Yesterday I went to school and tried it there. It didn't work. I tried many many solutions from creating a partition to formatting it to anything I could possibly do and suprisingly it still doesn't work. I don't know what to do. Should I return it and get another one? I tried that too and they've tried putting it into their computer and it worked fine. They said that i maybe needed to update my windows since i've had Windows 8.1 at that time and I updated it to Windows 10. Unfortunately I can't run Windows 11 because my computer doesn't have the requirements to run it. I've tried everything. Could you please help me out?

  • I just bought an external harddrive for my old PC since and I plugged it in and it didn't show up… but thanks to this video It shows up and I can use it to transfer files.

  • I love you man thank you so much this helps me a lot and the simple explanation is easily understood, keep up the good work man and thank you for helping people in need

  • When I tried this with mine, it was unallocated, I went through the process of setting a new simple volume, I clicked finished and it said virtual disk manager. The device is not ready. Why is this happening ? Help !

  • what should i do when it doesn't appear in my disk management even though i plugged it in

  • Darn. My HDD is showing up in disk management, but but the only options I can click on when I right click at “delete volume” and “help.”

  • Mine says “Fatal Error” does that mean it’s unrepairable? 😢

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