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Why is my Computer not reading my external usb drive?

My computer is not reading the external 250 gb drive. It can read the Thumb Drive only. Can anyone help?

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Right Click My Computer, Manage, Disk Management, you will see it there, Right click and give it a new...

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Computer not reading external hard drive?

Suddenly my external hard drive isn't read by my computer. It makes the noise whenever I connect it and it shows up in hardware and printers in the control panel, but it isn't assigned a drive letter or seen from windows explorer. I tested the cable...

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Can you hear the drive spinning? Does it appear in Disk Manager? Edit:Try Recuva. http://www.piriform...

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Why is My Computer not reading my external hard drive and why is it blinking?

My Hard drive is mainly used for my wii iso's with a couple of iso's in it, how ever i would like also like it to be used on my computer as well so i plugged the usb in my ...show more

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My first guess on the problem is file format. Windows uses NTFS mainly Nintendo Wii uses WBFS

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Calvary 500GB CAUE37500 Hard drive not reading on computer?

Ok, I have this Calvary Harddrive that I have had for two years, and because we moved a lot, I kept all of my computer files, music, pictures and videos on the hard drive because I didn't have a computer. About a year ago, the time I got an actual computer...

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Hard drives crap out all the time. It's just a fact of life, and from the sounds of it that's what happened...

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Computer Hard drive having capacity reading problems.?

I'm not really sure what is happening to my laptop's hard drive, but lately its reading on capacity has gone crazy, I have a 100gig harddrive, 20g of which is taken up for the system files and restore, so I really have 80gig, well lately my harddrive...

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sounds like you have a replicating virus that is designed to eat up your disk space. first try to run...

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My computer is not reading the hard drive right?

i replaced my hard drive from a 80 gig to a 160 gig but my computer does not read the complete gigs in my new hard drive what can i do so the computer reads the right gigs in my new hard drive

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Did you partition it 100%.

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1. Make sure the drive is plugged in, including any necessary power supplies. 2. If the drive is unformatted...

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Computer not reading second hard drive?

I recently got together three old hard drives from computers that no longer work and have been successful at pulling files from two of them by hooking them up to my current computer. ...show more

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If the third drive has not been seen by the pc, you may be having motherboard difficulties, they sometimes...

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Why isn't my computer reading my slave hard drive i just installed?

I just installed a sata hdd and connected it to my power supply and the sata cable outlets on my motherboard, but when i started my computer it just started as it usually did, and it ...show more

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Check the bios to see if you need to enable the sata port. Might be disabled. I don't think sata drives...

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You have encountered the LBA28 barrier. Most computers manufactured before 2002 had a limit of 128 GiB...

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