【Fixed】External Hard Drive Not Showing Up in My Computer

[@sohelreza9141]

My external hard drive works well when I use it in USB 2 but don't work in USB 3. My computer has only USB 3. I bought a USB hub with both USB 2 & 3 and use the external hard drive in USB 2 of that hub. It works fine.

[@Rakki_Haitatsu]

Disk management and right clicking on unallocated with assign letter wizard worked for me. Thank you very much sir! You earned a sub!

[@Dannitypeshi]

bro this was so helpful i have spent 2 hours looking at tutorials and yours was very easy to understand and very good i appreciate it

[@Shng1968]

I'm watching from Cambodia. Thank you so much for your video. I appreciate your clear explanation and voice. The problems are listed in the video, and they are solved one at a time.

[@leahnjokik.1450]

This was super helpful. Simple to follow and i am so happy to be able to use my hand drive now. I just had to create a New Drive Volume and that's it. Thanks a lot i appreciate. All those who watched and found value in this video should have subscribed. This guys deserves more subscribers.

[@StevePraize901]

True

[@503Squash]

my driver was not working and i tried sevrel ways that I took from youtube to fix it, but never worked and now with your video it is working THANK YOU

[@gsphx602]

Helped me disk management section helped me fix it! Thank you!!

[@kevina5357]

Saved me a headache. Other vids make it seem so much more complicated than it is. SAVED ME THANKS !

[@jhunrielamoin902]

its very helpful,,thank you very much,,,,😀

[@anyrecover5388]

that means a lot to us

[@Paxonex]

Thanks man, I was so confused now I’m subbing

[@nickbryan2587]

Thankyou so very much, new HDD using a USB enclosure and it wasn't showing, went through these easy steps and initialized the drive now it's showing. Thanks again.

[@TheBlackKakashi]

This is the best video ever. Step 2 was my problem, and you saved my laptop.

[@jonathandiesca2152]

Thanks!!! In my case I did it. I recover my toshiba 1tb external hard disc. Thank you so much for your channel. You explained what to do clearly... God bless you .

[@jenkat4619]

which technique did you use? i have so many important data and i cannot access my ext hard drive i am going mad.

[@AbdulbasidAbubakar-sd1yz]

Please which way did you use to repair it I have the same harddrive Toshiba 1tb please help a brother

[@shdagentzero]

I have spent so many hours watching guides today that were of no help... and this is the one that did it. Thank you so much.

[@anushadahal9618]

Only C drive is shown in disk management Can you help

[@jafferscakes7063]

Thank you this helped my get my external working again great video

[@goldman77700]

Did everything you said worked like a charm. Thank you legend.

[@jonahmiller988]

1:57 i tried clicking "new simple volume" for my hard drive but for some reason its not highlighting for me to click

[@fl0rin09]

Mine dosent showup in disk management but show up in hardware and sound ...and allso works on another laptop

[@bigchancey112009]

Thank you so much #AnyRecover! This video was extactlly what i needed to situate my disk finding issue. Not only are you getting a like but im subscribign as well.

[@anyrecover5388]

we would be glad it helps!

[@zoyo968]

Dude you just saved me alot of time!! I finaly fixed my external drive issues.. all it needed was a new drive letter! youre the best!

[@anyrecover5388]

Glad to know that this video helps！

[@fawazmosobalaje8377]

Still can't see mine,after trying everything

[@phatbeatz808]

@@anyrecover5388 my external hard drive is frozen the light stay lit! do you have any videos for that?

[@akshairaj5565]

When I tried to create a new drive volume I am asked to format the drive but if I do so it will erase all the date in my external drive.Is there any solution to create a new drive volume without formatting the harddisk?

[@martinmtonga835]

Same as me

[@kesienaechans9670]

How were you able to do it bro

[@debbiedavid4392]

Hello. I was only partially able to keep up with you, however, I will watch again to see if it helps. I have never used a hard drive, this was a gift, so all new. I’m kinda lost at this point. I tried to watch other videos, what a waste of time !

[@ArtAfk]

If I do new volume does that mean all the old stuff I had on there will be deleted

[@g33-roy95]

God bless i just followed all the steps & now um a happy Subscriber☺☺☺😅😊

[@anyrecover5388]

😄thanks for Subscribing

[@focusgaz]

worked perfectly on my portable hard drive. I've been trying to get it to work for months

[@nelsonktkm15]

My WD Black P10 didn’t Even Show In disk Manager it Only Pops up at The Devices And Printers And it Says Unknown USB Device Set Address Failed Code 43 Can Someone Please Help me out I Updated The USB Root Hub And Everything

[@dm19609721]

I have a Mac Mini 2014 and installed the latest Monterey OS....I used a wired key board as recommended......I installed bootcamp and then used my Logitech wired keyboard to use both systems....unbeknown to me my logitech wireless mouse and keyboard prevented me from seeing external drives on Monterey OS.....when I removed the wireless keyboard and attached a generic wired keyboard I could see all the external drives attached to Mac OS.....this drove me nuts

[@smilekapoor]

You've saved me from worry. Thanks

[@nichrom__]

Thank you so much bro, you helped me big time. I'll continue supporting you.. thanks again.

[@Dikwili]

I have two drives that will show up in disk manager but give “device not ready” error when I try to initialize them. Tried everything I can think of or find in CMD. Nothing seems to work.

[@hansungan]

Same situation 😔

[@kaushiksarkar7837]

mine shows in just usb 2 and not in usb 3 I have tried checking with other pc and it still doesnt shows up

[@rensithudayanga8993]

Video is very HELPFUL thank you

[@lovvin.]

This was tremendously helpful, thank you!

[@anyrecover5388]

glad to hear that!

[@justwatching4649]

2nd method worked, thank you so much! :)

[@mirapagan5703]

I have no drive letter for my external drive and right clicking does not give me the option to assign one in win11

[@dumpspot2]

Thanks you so much ! i thought i lost 1,8 terabyte this is the most helpful video i have seen all year!

[@villagelife6561]

Whenever I'm connecting my hard drive my computer getting freezed, no hard drive related utility is opening like hdd manager or hard disk sentinel... Everything else works .. hard drive is being recognised by system, a drive letter is also assigned

[@SahilKhan-gf6tc]

Amazing work thanks for the help

[@jazzautumn4806]

When i right click on my device, the “change drive letter” button is greyed out and I can’t select it

[@researchscholar]

My problem is that in Disk Management I do not have "New Simple Volume" as an option. Instead, I have "Shrink Volume" and "Delete Volume" as options. What should I do?

[@akhileshchinta7900]

delete volume and then after that new simple volume will be shown

[@harithmuaz]

Ahh thanks dude, my 500gb file saved thanks to u..

[@MarsFranke]

My problem started, after I scanned the ext.HD, which windows reccomended, because there was a supposed problem. After scanning it said everything is okay, but then it didn't read the HD anymore. I tried out, the things from this video, but it still doesn't help. Any advise?

[@Davi-sw5ft]

this video is really helpful

[@anyrecover5388]

😄that means a lot to us

[@mortneff4674]

This is simular to my prob but not quite. My comupter sees my WD 40ezaz when hooked to my Cinolink adapter but not in anyother setup. Any ideas My Computer is seeing the hook ups in devices but not the hard drive when in them. Also does that in Disk Man!

[@Loccedingamingovw]

Thank you. just fixed my hard drive

[@rondohunter8966]

From my perspective your computer is recognizing the device as being attached. Mine is not even going that far.

[@REALTEXAN_Hispanic]

Yea same problem. No videos on KZbin help

[@rondohunter8966]

@@REALTEXAN_Hispanic The more I look into "permanent" solutions I'm finding there seems to be little to none for the home consumer. Whether it has moving parts or not they have a life span only you don't know what it is or when it will happen. Unless you're willing to put it in the cloud then be prepared for loss...sigh.

[@c.1.s.c.o]

This help me a lot and this very easy thanks

[@anyrecover5388]

😄glad it helps

[@pranavipranavi5664]

Explained it very systematically,let me try if it works

[@anyrecover5388]

🤗

[@kiranbhanu1982]

With out data loosing in showing unallocated when connected external Hard drive

[@StevePraize901]

Thanks, this really helped me

[@yellow97]

It's been 2 years so I don't know if you'll see my comment, but thank you from the bottom of my heart! You don't know how much this video helped me🥺

[@anyrecover5388]

yeah, I see!! that means a lot to us🥰

[@rlgames3436]

Tysm saved me buying new drive and adapter

[@cjfourie1560]

Thanks bro you've been a real help😎

[@ianprocter3189]

This video is spot on. At first I even thought I still couldn't figure it out, but I'll BE! Watching this video made it possible. Very well done. My Element WD was showing up as disc 1. I had reformatted it to hold PS4 data, but needed to use it for Windows. Another video said Disk 0 and Disk 1 were usually your PC's C drive and other important stuff so I just had it in my head that I couldn't touch those. Turns out Disk 1 was it and all I had to do was delete the volume on it. Which I am guessing was all the PS4 stuff.

[@anyrecover5388]

glad it helps, that means a lot to us!!

[@eL.N.M.]

mine usually has an led on when they're connected and even has a pug in sound, but this time it shows none of them :((( I wonder if it's the usb cable or the disk itself that is broken OMG I'm panicking right now. What do you think is happening. it was ok 5 minutes ago when I wanted to ransfer files and suddenly the external driver didnt showed up on the screen..

[@ATOMIKDOG23]

You are a genius....it worked great....Thank you

[@rob3lanes]

Really Helpful Thank you

[@Mr_ossified]

How do you get new simple volume

[@kuntahmaps5273]

you my new friend are a genius and ah just subscribed... ah thot ma drive was broken

[@jazminerosepingol8926]

Hi, I cannot click the New Simple Volume button

[@orochi3445]

Thank a lot, you're a hero!

[@joey2917]

You saved me!!!! You just earned a new subscriber and a thumbs up.

[@MK-ge6ne]

THANKS A LOT😭😭😭😭😭, this vid helps me a lot

[@delasse3178]

I have an external WD 14TB Elements drive and plenty of experience installing new drives. I kept getting errors of "fatal" device error. Couldn't initialize or format. I would shut off and turn back on... nothing. Then I unplugged the drive from the AC input and plugged it back in, and my PC finally recognized it. As for why it didn't the first time, I have absolutley no idea; but I spent 45 minutes thinking it was probably DOA until 45 seconds ago. This is after trying all my computers USB ports, etc.

[@C-LowGC573]

Thank you sooo much this helps ALOT!!!!

[@dls541]

how to check the drive to see if anything was written to it before it stopped working? the white light on my wd external drive doesnt come on, it worked on my old pc, not on new one, i tried a laptop i couldn't figure out. please help. I can still rma wd but dont want to until i verify nothing is on the drive.

[@anyrecover5388]

You mean the light was not on when plugging it in? Then probably the drive is damaged. But first you can try the methods in the video to help detect the drive.

[@rndea100]

i cant create a new letter is says mbr partition y cant i get my files its an old ide drive i do not want to format the drive ???

[@aghaabbas1]

You're brilliant however my problem is my Transcend storejet 1tb has data in it and I see it (thanks to you), in Disk Managent. Could you kindly help with a a way I can resolve the issue without formatting it. I cant afford to lose the Data. Thanks in advance.

[@anyrecover5388]

Did you try to assign a new drive letter or troubleshoot driver issues? In this way your data will stay safe.

[@thabangtladi8247]

Hi,when I try to initialize my new hard drive it says "windows unable to install your PCI serial Port"💁‍♂️ so I dnt know what to do 🤦‍♂️can you please help??

[@anyrecover5388]

Hi, you may find answers in Microsoft Community: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/pci-serial-port-drivers-couldnt-install/e71cf22d-9bea-4f43-a83b-255041365685

[@mrsetamayple]

This helped a lot, thank you so much!

[@rohithrohith1845]

First time it's showing. Once I disconnect and connect it's not showing.

[@faceless1239]

You lord and saver thanks so much +1 sub!

[@notorious_southern8613]

This didn't help me, I can't see my drive in drive management. Can someone help me with this?

[@BiohChemicalz]

Im having same issue

[@GrenxtEdit]

it maybey cable flickering

[@ozspace1418]

Me too. My cable is fine too because i tried it with other external hdd

[@garvin8657]

i’m having the same issue, did you figure it out yet?

[@life_motived_corey]

@@garvin8657 same here

[@TheMamaRose]

Wow! Thanks so much! I got mine to work! Thank you thank you! I have so many important docs here!

[@AnthonCast]

Okay, definitely I can't solve this by formatting. Not only because I'll lost data from a decade, but also Disk Management won't show the disk. Like, my PC recognizes the disk for seconds, and then it ignores it. I'm not sure what's going on.

[@charlottemccrea8669]

what to do when my external hard drive doesn't show at all in the disk management window? thank you

[@YoshiIsCool1]

My Seagate External Drive Went out on me. 😪

[@DJeeyYeo]

this is a good video but once again, i cannot do that because windows doesn't recognize my HDD, don't show up on the file explorer, no signs of life, so any solution?

[@kitshyavelez2777]

Still not working :( Watched so many tutorials but the right click to > new simple volume is gray and cant do it that way will appreciate your help

[@Naomi-gr7fm]

Curious. What if my USB ports (3.0 in particular) still works for other devices? In my case, the USB jack for my external HDD is only detected when I plug it into my USB 2.0 port with the notification "There's a problem with the drive. Scan to fix it." Yet the scan isn't able to fix anything. The only time I can see it in Disk Management or Device Manager now is when it's connected to the 2.0 port and there's no exclamation point or any detected issues. I was able to get it to detect in my 3.0 port for ONE day if I uninstalled it in Device Manager (while it was in the 2.0 port), ejected it, then plugged it in to the 3.0 port.

[@royalpmedia6197]

I really appreciate your video other people made theirs so difficult your was simple and straight to the point and made finding the resolution very easy I really appreciate it thanks from a person that was very concerned

[@Rl-zv4dh]

None of these youtube videos fix an external hard drive that doesn't show up as a letter or up in disk management under unknown. Yet wmic command shows drive is OK and properties say it's working properly.....

[@tv-21]

Thanks so much! It worked

[@anyrecover5388]

😄it means a lot to us!

[@فوفوببجي17]

Mine doesn't show on disk management how to fix it please help?!

[@Reggedit.]

I have a problem : when i open disk manager it just crashes so i can't do nothing about it

[@kevphillips02]

What about if I try hitting it with a mallet ?

[@Teaduplalavideos]

I tried so many videos and they did not work for me but urs did 😊

[@RixtronixLAB]

Nice info, thanks for sharing it :)

[@anyrecover5388]

no problem!

[@breadyy3782]

It’s saying access denied when I try to format it, The external hard drive I have is a Toshiba and I am on windows 10. I don’t know what to do. It also keeps saying the Parameter is incorrect.

[@anyrecover5388]

Hi, first give permission to your external hard drive. 1) Go to This PC and right-click the inaccessible external hard drive, select Properties and go to the Security tab. 2) Click on Edit and choose your username from the Group or username section. 3) Click Add and OK to finish. Let me know if this helps : -)

[@Teaduplalavideos]

It worked for me thank you so much for this video now I get to play my sims and I have enough space I’m so hype 🎉❤🔥

[@ycc166]

how to fix partition errors ?

[@lydiaerinab]

Thank you very much, you just saved me big time🤗

[@Maraknokr]

thank you so you help to fix my problem

[@udrescuaurelian4610]

I connected the external hard disk to the TV and then the laptop doesn't see it anymore, does anyone know why

[@SnakoMsi]

Lol me too 😭

[@abdelrahmanahmed6189]

Many THANKS Bro

[@ایرانباستان-ج1ح]

I formatted the new external hard drive with Windows 10. Is it recoverable?

[@anyrecover5388]

technically it can, just check this video tutorial👉👉kzbin.info/www/bejne/a53TnIqNiMyVb7c

[@moviemaker2011z]

im not sure if im doing anything wrong but i would appreciate any help if it can be offered. i found some old HDD's that were in some old computers my family had. my dads was still running windows XP because like a stubborn ox he refused to update his hardware. my mothers was eventually upped to windows seven and i think in the last months before she stopped using it updated to windows 8 but never 10. so anyways i have both HDD's which are the 3.5 disk drives that require 12v to function. the newer one (its about 10 years old) is a sata connection and does power on and stay on, but its not showing up in the disk management, and on the device management its also not showing up either. so if i may ask, is there anything im doing wrong? on the second one its slightly older and has the old master/slave/system board cable that computers no longer use. i have an adapter to fit that, but it also doesnt seem to power on though it could be because the adapter doesnt allow for power to flow into the HDD. i wish i knew more but i honestly dont. all im wanting is to get the files off and save them because my family doesnt appreciate the necessity of keeping memories and saving them for later and im the only one trying to fix this. for the newer HDD i can plug it into my computer i believe because i do have space available for it in my desktop, imm just worried my computer is going to try and stop functioning because of it. again any help is greatly appreciated.

[@moviemaker2011z]

didnt want to do an edit, so here is update 1 of hopefully only 1. i switched USB Ports to the ones behind my desktop thinking maybe they would be better, and i was right. my computer now recognizes the newer HDD but its having a very hard time with it. not sure what all is going on but now i need to try the second more older one but im pretty sure its not going to work seeing as how theres still the issue with no power but hey one step at a time right?

[@antonvanniekerk4894]

What all lessons on this topic have all so far failed to do is that they do not demonstrate the difference on the Disc management page between when the hard drive is, and isnt plugged in, and as it would need to differ to be of relevance, these lessons leave me completely underwhelmed.....like if the disc management page stays the same regardless of if the hard drive is plugged in or not, then how can anything else you teach be of the slightest relevance ?

[@rggudao8810]

many thanks it works to me🙏💪😎

[@KibbsTV]

Fixed it by just trying a different cable. Happened with my blue yeti as well.