Comments on: Windows not recognizing my external hard drive. http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/windows-not-recognizing-my-external-hard-drive/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:12:44 +0000 hourly 1 By: mohib http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/windows-not-recognizing-my-external-hard-drive/#comment-52797 mohib Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:18:19 +0000 #comment-52797 Well its not usb, you have manually give drive letter in disk management ,

Right click on My computer
Click Manage
Click on Disk Management, There you will see your external hard drive right click on it
Change drive letter or give it one . boom it will give you relief
Hope its help

Cheers

Azhar

]]> By: jblossom http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/windows-not-recognizing-my-external-hard-drive/#comment-52770 jblossom Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:22:10 +0000 #comment-52770 Aaron,

This happened to me recently with a Smartdisk outboard USB drive. In my case it was a SmartDrive, which uses a Samsung driuve. The drive was fried, I paid $150 to get some of the data extracted. Apparently you can swap in a better drive as needed into this device – it’s not a good one, I found by cruising a number of message boards.

]]> By: aaron brown http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/windows-not-recognizing-my-external-hard-drive/#comment-52767 aaron brown Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:47:36 +0000 #comment-52767 The USB port is 2.0, but the drive is actually backwards-compatible with 1.1 anyway.

Also, it worked on the same computer in the same port until I reinstalled Windows. I probably should’ve mentioned that, buuut… I can’t figure out how to edit the question, if that’s even possible.

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