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Control Panel, Computer Management, Disk Management. Check that your Hitachi disk is present. If it is present, does it have a drive letter assigned? If not Right Click and Assign Drive Letter. If drive not present you should check power and data connections.

You must be a little more specific about the problems you are seeing.

Do other usb devices get picked up? What operating system are you running?

A lot of things that you purchase before new technology comes out, or before a new operating system comes out won't work on the new stuff. Your drive probably does work on win8 though. Do you open windows explorer to see the new drive letter?

Update your ms Drivers and Service pack.

It may be a dead drive. What kind of diagnostics other than your pc bios have you used? Have you tried to install the drive in a USB drive case and connecty it to another PC to see if it recognizes?

Hi, I presume that in the box where they came packed it says "Mac compatible" since every HD nowadays is. They are not recognized probably because you did not format them.Warning: The following instructions will ERASE ALL of the Disk's contents.Do the following:

1. Plug the Disk into the computer.
2. Open "Disk Utility" app in your Mac (it is a built-in app, already on your Mac).
3. Big disks like that may take several seconds to initiate, be sure to wait for it to pop up in "Disk Utility's" left device list.
4. Select the disk in the left panel (device list) and then, on the right, select "Partition" tab.
5. In "Volume Scheme" select 1 Partition (or the number of partitions you wish if you understand the concept of a partition).
6. In "Volume Information" give the name to your disk/partition and select it's format (If you're going to be switching the disk between Mac and Windows select MS-DOS (FAT), if only Mac choose Mac OS extended). Warning: MS-DOS is an old primitive filing system so you will not be able to have single files with more than 4 GB on the disk, like an HD Blue-Ray movie.
7. Select Apply, done.

If you couldn't see the disk in "Disk Utility" then your USB ports may not be fast enough, in this case you may have a cable with 2 USB ports that go in the computer and both connect simultaneously the disk to provide more speed. If you don't I can't help you more with the information i've got.Good luck.

If mouse is usb try another usb port or try it on another computer/laptop. You can also try the add hardware in the control panel to see if that works. If not, then your mouse is not compatible or no longer works.

Download Recuva, and run the deep scan on the drive, it should be able to detect the deleted files, make sure to save them to a different drive than the one you are recovering from.

Go into computer CMOS and set the boot up order amongst peripherals.

is it recognize setup ? bios ?

I read a few answers to your problem, one is if it came with a "Y" style pigtail for the USB you need to connect both USB plugs,second that model has a improper alloy in its soldered connections and there is some soer of recall underway,try consumer reports for more information on the recall,mentioned something like a 100.00 refund avail. on certain models,good luck,Gary

NTLDR is the NT loader that loads the kernel.You may have a corrupt boot record. Re install windows is the simplest solution. You may be able to do a windows repair if you have the original OS install disk.

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have you formated your hard drives? are your black or white jumpers hooked to the pins on top of hard drive? if the hard drives are new chances are the jumpers are still in small plastic package.the jumpers are little peaces of plastic with two holes with metal in them. the jumpers go on were it says master if you are using 2 hard drives .the other hard drive the jumper goes were it says slave. if you are using 1 hard drive you put the jumper on cs.

Its 100% a PCB fault or the Rom is corrupt.it requires a data recovery expert.