Most of these externals have no drivers. They are set up to plug & play. If you no longer have the instruction manual, you will need to go on the Seagate Mfg site.
The biggest misconception about the externals is that you have to first format them which is outlined in the instruction manual. The formatting takes a few minutes. Once it is completed the drive will be linked to the computer and you will see it in the formatting window and also in My Computer.
When you format the drive you will also be able to choose which letter the drive will be under. Make sure no other device is assigned the same letter.
If you assign the same letter to two different devices, you may have a conflict and your system will not recognize one of them.
SOURCE: USB 2.0 Portable External 200 GB Hard Drive doesn't want show up
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Go Start> Control
Panel> Administrative Tools> Computer Management
Select Disk Management under
Storage
Look to see if your Drive is
listed and what the Status, Layout, Type, and File System it has.
Right mouse click on the dive
and click on Explore to see if your files come up. If yes, then perform a
Change Drive Letter and Path.
Let me know what the status
is.
SOURCE: want to remove wd2500 drive from HDD enclosure and
OK your hard drive is an ATA drive.
You motherboard will have two hard disk controllers, on the 1st controller the ATA cable will have two connectors - a connector will have the C drive hard disk attached to it and the jumper on the hard drive will be set as the Master drive. You may also have a CD or DVD drive connected to this cable, if so then the CD or DVD drive will be jumpered as a Slave drive.
If the second connector does not have a drive connected, then you can connect the second hard drive to this connector BUT it needs to be jumpered as a Slave drive.
You may elect to connect the second hard drive to the second IDE controller instead on the first controller. If there aren't any drives on the second ATA cable then the second hard drive can be jumpered as either a Master or Slave drive.
If there is a drive on the second ATA cable you need to determine the jumper setting of that drive and then set the jumper on the second hard drive to a different setting. BOTH drives on the same cable CANNOT have the same drive setting.
After installing the second hard drive, check the BIOS configuration of the second hard drive, if the hard drive is detected then when Windows boots up you will see the hard drive and its contents.
SOURCE: my computer does not recognize my external hard drive
try the device on another PC. if it works then you have a issue with you PC,
SOURCE: Sony Vaio laptop could not access 1TB external hard drive
try other usb port, or other computer and see whether the hdd is detected. If still not, try to go to device manager ( http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000833.htm ), and then assign a drive letter to the hdd. After that, try to access it from Computer, if not able to access it, format it (use quick format) and then use this data recovery program to recover your files.
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