How to Fix External Drive Not Recognized Error in Windows

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@michaelsullivan9199 5 жыл бұрын

Unplugged expander and went direct.....it worked, so simple, but I needed your video to realize it, THANK YOU!

@Mad-Slick 4 жыл бұрын

You are my freaking hero. Had an internal ssd inside an external enclosure and my laptop wouldn't assign it to a drive. Not tech savvy myself but "new simple volume" did everything I needed.

@mynewme8759 6 жыл бұрын

I've watched a dozen videos trying to figure this out. But following your steps worked great!! Thank you very much for this!!

@Tehgoat 5 жыл бұрын

Yep, same here There's loads of vids with guys padding out the time and not actually addressing the problem

@thanosztitan 5 жыл бұрын

Same Here, Thanks for this!

@celimac88 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you SO much!!! I had precious pictures of my pup who recently passed away in my old computer and could not get the external HD to format the traditional way. I was getting scared I wouldn't be able to transfer these pictures. I ran into your video and it WORKED!! I can't begin to express how grateful I am.

@prestonsmith2241 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! That was one of the most helpful videos I have found on KZfaq best automechanic repair videos. LOL The most helpful video I found for reformatting my external hard drive.

@nickwalbridge3371 4 жыл бұрын

I was at my wits end trying to get my pc to recognize my new external drive and you managed to sort if for me in a matter of seconds. Youre a hero my friend. You have earnt yourself a subscriber!

@Garjames1 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you - Been having issues with a new DAS device I had for Xmas - This tutorial fixed it. Much appreciated :-)

@danielmontgomery7971 5 жыл бұрын

This was so helpful! Great video that explains the process step-by-step! Thank you sir!

@robertmckelvey1913 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for placing the information on you tube. I followed your instructions and it worked perfectly. I'm not that computer savvy so everyone should have no problem doing it.

@shay8915 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you sooo much yours was the only video after I watched 6 of them that actually made since and worked perfectly! Your great!!!

@daveponder2754 4 жыл бұрын

It made since? Sense when? MORON, larn houwe tu spel.

@JAZZMAN72762 4 жыл бұрын

Don't be mean!

@nintendofanlp 6 жыл бұрын

PERFECT!!!! Just what I needed!!!! Thank you!

@Landops 7 жыл бұрын

After going through the whole video and trying everything exactly according to your procedure...nothing worked, BUT I learned enough from this video to be able to go back and figure it out through a slightly different procedure and WALA! Thanks for the clear help that's hard to find these days.

@veronicareyes1359 6 жыл бұрын

voila*******************

@d-o-n-u-t 6 жыл бұрын

What is that slightly different procedure? I need it.

@rainbowmerlin1 5 жыл бұрын

great advice - really helped me sort out my problem - thanks a lot!

@artfromheart9095 6 жыл бұрын

thumbs up and big thank you. It worked for me just as shown in tutorial.

@ggonzalez435 3 жыл бұрын

thank you for being easy to listen to and straight to the point.

@thomasparker683 5 жыл бұрын

SUPER helpful this was causing me so much pain looking for an explaination. thanks!

@guidedbylight 2 жыл бұрын

Clear and simple instructions. Thank you so much 😊

@Hellraiser187187 5 жыл бұрын

Thank You! Very Helpful.

@ThexDynastxQueen 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the easy to understand and straight forward help. Had a SDD in an enclosure that was recognized but not showing up on Win 7.

@cindylim57 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sir. Your guidance saved my day!

@rpgkingwatson4842 5 жыл бұрын

ThanksSSS A Million!!!. I've been having a hard time trying to format my Toshia Canvia on my windows pc. This worked great. Now i can save my longer Xbox One videos to my external hard drive.

@augustaggeboy137 4 жыл бұрын

I searched way too long for this, but thank you!

@SirEightySeven 4 жыл бұрын

So much more helpful then any written tutorial, got it running half way thru your video ;]

@adamrodgers1051 9 ай бұрын

Haha same :)

@DangerManXX 6 жыл бұрын

Straight up. Thumbs up. Solved a problem when I had been using this drive previously to store game files with my Xbox.

@tyrantam529 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video! Managed to get Windows to find my external after I changed the Drive letter, much appreciated!

@muhammadzubairdawood3849 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you verrry much. Hard drive is working once again. This video saved me money :-)

@NostraDamianus69 4 жыл бұрын

THAAAANK YOU so muuch, I've been looking for a solution for months :')

@mopnem 4 жыл бұрын

Very helpful and to the point. Thank you

@eleazar-reyagudo1400 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video. This surely formatted my SP Armor perfectly

@liammcguire6645 4 жыл бұрын

Youre a god send! Thank you so much!!!!

@mjsoup29 5 жыл бұрын

Good info and clear and to the point - thank you!

@BryanMax 6 жыл бұрын

Great Info, thanks for posting

@Xistaable 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your instructions. It really helped to correct the problem. You are great...!!!

@iGamerZ13 5 жыл бұрын

Helped alot, thanks!

@zanasteer 5 жыл бұрын

Just what I was looking for. Thanks!

@tinotim 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, I was trying to access my external hard drive for days, your guidelines were what I needed. I am now able to use my device. Thank you one more time. I subscribed to your channel as a thank you.

@tazflcn 4 жыл бұрын

Vicente Monteiro did your data get erased?

@curtbeaird7026 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome video. It worked. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

@angelcurcio6122 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the great share, it got my issue fixed!!!

@longtaco 2 жыл бұрын

THAN YOU!! I just bought an external storage enclosure, and started to panic when windows didn't detect it. You are my savior.

@xjstalex1332 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks a million man!!!!Saved me from a trip to the pc doctor.Keep up the good work!

@maxwhodat5043 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you. So refreshing to have an adult give you instructions instead of a techno track and blinking lights!!!!

@outdoor-brothers 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this video! I've tried everything that i could and nothing worked. So glad I stumbled on your video, my drive is mounted again and working normal now.

@cullanpiano Жыл бұрын

You are the best!!! This was so simple, after trying to follow instructions on websites which all want to sell you something to do what you showed me and fixed in 10 seconds. THANK YOU!

@ts8538 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! You helped me get my external hard drive recognized.

@silc9071 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, this worked great for me got my external drive fixed in no time.

@eyesgreen7109 3 жыл бұрын

Clear, concise, and informative! WTFreindly Thank You. I did all your instructions which are great, I see my drive but it will not let me change the drive letter, any suggestions?

@sinnertography9707 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. This video was a great help.

@Ferno209 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I was going through Google & so many forums on to just trying to get the original size of my External Hard Drive back but so many of them told me to download a 3rd Party Program & I got no where. The first two minutes of the video fixed my issue & I want to say thank you!

@zomtis 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I've managed to get my external drive (wd hard disk) recognized! Oh, what a happiness after trying it with no success myself without any help…

@humbertomaldonado5950 4 жыл бұрын

the same hard drive issue and easy fix!

@sir7544 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks So Much! finally a tutorial that works, i subbed and liked.

@sasukesak20 3 жыл бұрын

i appreciate it, finally you could help, because shitty windows CS, only says troubleshoot and nothing happens; Youre a life saver, thank you!!!

@davidgray5127 4 жыл бұрын

Worked perfect! Thank you!

@jasonl5948 5 жыл бұрын

great VID!!! finally a short and simple video that fix the issue. THANKS!!!!

@UnknownCreaturegr 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much,it was really a helpful video.

@crazydalmation4778 4 жыл бұрын

Very Helpful thanks for this man!!!

@jerrygmz 4 жыл бұрын

Omg, you SAVED MY SANITY just now! Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was literally about to return my WD 1TB SSD interntal drive (but have an enclosure so using it as an external) because my laptop was not recognizing it. Your recommendation to go to run> diskmgmt.msc saved me. I did not know that it would show up as "unallocated" to my PC. Then clicked on "new simple volume" and ran the wizard and after formatting it works like a charm! Great work and thank you again for your help!

@SeanDIY 5 жыл бұрын

Perfect. I tried to backup my old computer and my WD Hard Drive no longer had it's software on it. Doing the right click on the bottom worked. Sadly I lost everything, but pretty sure that was going to happen anyway.

@partible5803 3 жыл бұрын

It requires a format sadly I figured that out the hard way just now

@leffel.9995 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, thank you, you really made my day.

@drsbaitso0 3 жыл бұрын

Super helpful, thank you!

@bombtrak15 6 жыл бұрын

After hours of frustration, I had to assign a drive letter. My seagate external worked for years, I was freaking out. I don't know why it happened but this fixed it, THANK YOU!

@kevandraper4829 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for this informative tutorial to help me and many more.

@rickboehm7970 5 жыл бұрын

Dude this video solved a huge problem is was having THANKS BUNCH

@GTXgb-gt8lz 3 жыл бұрын

very in-depth. Thank you!

@gothikkitsune759 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks you, this helped me so much.

@randocalrissian7284 6 жыл бұрын

Fantastic thank you. Works like a charm my man.

@isaacvrba 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing Video. Fixed my problem in no time. Keep it up.

@lilscoop__ 4 жыл бұрын

Dude thank you so much it helped! (:

@265petsar 4 жыл бұрын

Thank You, great information

@freightdog75 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent, thanks so much for the assistance. worked fine

@dannyrohrlach4708 5 жыл бұрын

Great Video. So helpful and well explained

@jorgefelicio1621 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your help!

@JAZZMAN72762 4 жыл бұрын

Life Saver, i have a 2 TB Toshiba external disk drive with all my music,pictures and data stored on it,my laptop would not recognize it,i went into disc management and i gave it a new drive letter and i am one happy camper thanks to this video,thanks so much.

@mrjohncraigjr 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, the only clear and precise video to get access to my thumb drive .... On KZfaq..

@tbhagains 5 жыл бұрын

Great!! Thanks, just subscribed!!

@granthagan6865 4 жыл бұрын

Thought it was the usb drivers were the problem but just changing the Drive number was all that was needed. Thank You...

@reedified6514 5 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!!

@seemecominatu 6 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU SO MUCH... I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR VIDEO :)

@SonKosen 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks dude this really helped me out

@mycarmypetrol 5 жыл бұрын

Worked great!! Thank you :)

@nelsonsxs3515 4 жыл бұрын

Omg i ve been looking to solve this for weeks!!! as soon as i assigned the letter it started working, dont understand the logic behind this but im soooo grateful, thank you so much!!! :D

@jullaespos3439 3 жыл бұрын

did you loose all your files?

@daddyattitude 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much. Forgot about this as I had not had to use this in like decades.

@kenzieplayz2117 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you this helped a lot!

@DaintreeJD 4 жыл бұрын

thank you, I assigned a new drive letter and it worked very much appreciated.

@GGEZUS 6 жыл бұрын

worked like a charm!!! thanks man!

@nathaniel.b5989 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much dor the help!!!

@solchau1 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Whatever you said worked for me.

@Myraebos 7 жыл бұрын

Great guide

@DRBones811 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video! Thank you!

@DardanelleNews 5 жыл бұрын

1 million percent an ACE sir! Been plugging drives up & watching videos....yours got me to a solution. LIKE!

@tokospeed1751 5 жыл бұрын

OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH ( 1:44 ) I LOVE U MAN!!!!!!!!!!

@marcink8472 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant video 👍 thank you!

@FeedScrn Жыл бұрын

Thank You. I used your tip about going to disc management and assigning a letter.

@Immy.Jackson 5 жыл бұрын

Very well done. Thank you.

@landadvisor1546 5 жыл бұрын

Me too!!! I've watched many videos trying to figure this out. But following your steps worked great!! Thank you very much for this!! CLA

@edmartinez160 5 жыл бұрын

Great video u helped a lot thx for the information

@Carlosmax29 2 жыл бұрын

Great video with clear language. Thanks very much!

@SnarkierThan-U-R 5 жыл бұрын

OK I did what you suggested and the items that appeared were the C and E drives and one that read system reserve, which I am assuming is the additional 500 Gb drive that I recently added so I labeled that drive: F So I think everything is Okay,?

@iisamich 4 жыл бұрын

no, its gonna die and youl lose all that information...... jk youre fine lol