honeyb35 Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 I've just gone to plug my external hard drive into the laptop, and it's not recognising it in 'my computer'. The hard drive powers on and I can hear it whirring, I've changed the data cable in case it was that, but nothing. I've gone into disk management and its not showing there either. Has it gone to computer tech heaven? Hope not, its got loads of photos and music on there! Photos are uploaded to facebook and music to ipod so most of it isn't completely lost if so, but I could do with getting it sorted! Thanks to all helpful techy people out there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asif Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 is the drive a 2.5" or 3.5" drive, either way you could take the drive out of the case and try it in a PC if 3.5" or if 2.5" stick it in a caddy. Could also be that the partition table has been corrupted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffeeld Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Is it USB? try a different USB slot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honeyb35 Posted March 8, 2013 Author Share Posted March 8, 2013 No idea what size, its in a sealed unit? I've tried all the different usb slots, and on a different laptop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarissa Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Try this method ...usually solves external drives that are not recognised Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honeyb35 Posted March 8, 2013 Author Share Posted March 8, 2013 Thanks Clarissa, already tried that sadly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waddler8 Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Microsoft fixit : http://support.microsoft.com/mats/cd_dvd_drive_problems/en-us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speleo1 Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 its a external hard drive , not cd/dvd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waddler8 Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 It may still solve the problem. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925196/en-us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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