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External harddrive USB - only recognised in device manager

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by shereeeee

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I have an external USB harddrive, that plays up intermittently. It is recognised in device manager, but not disk management or my computer. It has worked before, i lent it to a friend, it worked fine for her, she deleted EVERYTHING off it, and returned it to me, and now it isn't recognised anywhere but device manager, which makes it pretty useless. i've tried uninstalling, reinstalling, removing it from device manager in both places, it still won't be recognised. im using Windows XP.

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by pkutzer

Go into Administrative tools -- Computer Management -- Disk management, is it there? If it is, click on it and format it there. This should now work.

by internetspider

Yea please try to delete partition and re-part again and format ir using the Norton Partition manager 8 this can solve Your problem.

Second solution is plug it in th USB and boot your system with windows xp cd and when it shws the drives delete partition and repart it,

BE SUER to Repartition of ur USB dont format ur OS Hard disk you will destroy your DATA.

Best of Luck.

by jpakledinaz

open disk management and try to give it a different drive letter, sometimes letters are assigned twice if you have a bunch of mapped drives and add a USB drive

by jim.juster

I have a disk that is behaving as described in this thread - external USB hard drive that appears in Disk Management as Healthy, but I get a 'not accessible' error from Windows when it's connected.

The rub is that I'd like to get the data from it prior to formatting it - is there any help for this situation?

Thanks very much for your help.

by oh smeg

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Col

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