Computer won't recognize external hard drive anymore Hitachi lifestudio

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Hello

If the HHD gets power and you can feel the drive spinning, you can try these steps and see if your problem is solved. Go to:

control panel
Administrative tools
Computer management
Storage
Disc management

Now you should see your drive in the schematic below. Right click on it and choose the option to change drive letter or paths. Now just assign a new drive letter to the drive, restart your computer and it should work fine.

If you cannot see any power light flickering or feel movement on the drive when you power it up, then there is a other problem. Hope this can help you.

Best regards
Andrea

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Great advice tech8 !!! That worked for me. I was frustrated with this problem for the last month. It looks like my chief problem was that the drive letter previously being used for this HDD was assigned to a different network path. It looks like it didn't automatically give a new drive letter. Your solution worked great!

THANK YOU!

JR

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Probably not. You can try putting it in the freezer overnight (in a bag please, don't get moisture in it) but most likely if you must have the files back it will take professional help.

Ginko

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• Posted on Apr 16, 2009

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Test the HD on a different computer, if you get same problem, then the disk can be faulty. Backup your data ASAP, then replace either exernal hard disk enclosure, or the hard disk drive, depending on what is faulty.

If you get no problem on other computers, then the system is causing the problem. In that case try doing a system restore to a recent date before the problem started. If that does not work, then you will have to reinstall the system.

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try to format it in other way like ntfs or fat32....