Not recognizing a hard drive?... any suggestions?

LeatherMosquitoMan

So i'm trying to transfer music over to an external HD, but my PC is not recognizing the new HD...

Anyone have any ideas/suggestions on how to overcome this?

U R A Crazy Breed

LeatherMosquitoMan wrote:

So i'm trying to transfer music over to an external HD, but my PC is not recognizing the new HD...

Anyone have any ideas/suggestions on how to overcome this?

is it a new drive? what size is it? what OS do you have?

81

dig up the info on the hard drive and then find the owners manual / drivers from the manufactures web site.

assuming you are windows 2k or better, windows should be able to find it.

norm

first...is the drive formatted?

also, open up computer management and click on 'disk management' and see if it's there

U R A Crazy Breed

81 wrote:

dig up the info on the hard drive and then find the owners manual / drivers from the manufactures web site.

assuming you are windows 2k or better, windows should be able to find it.

if he bought a big HD like 1 TB or bigger..some OS have trouble recognizing them and like you said, he needs to get a driver from the manufacturers web site.

LeatherMosquitoMan

It's a 500GB Western Digital, same as mine, but a newer model.

LeatherMosquitoMan

U R A Crazy Breed wrote:

LeatherMosquitoMan wrote:

So i'm trying to transfer music over to an external HD, but my PC is not recognizing the new HD...

Anyone have any ideas/suggestions on how to overcome this?

is it a new drive? what size is it? what OS do you have?

I have Windows XP Office. I transferred music to another Western Digital last night, with no problems whatsoever.

Stone Is God

Check WD's website. They should have some documentation on how you can solve the problem.

U R A Crazy Breed

if you are running more than 2 drives (1 master & 1 slave) try undoing the slave and hooking up this drive(to see if maybe it's your drive cable)

if it's an external drive try using another usb port.

or use "add/remove hardware" and try to locate & install it "manually"(if it's the same model as your other drive just use the same driver you have for the first one)

but if you have XP it should recognize it automatically.....weird!

LeatherMosquitoMan

I think, with the help of some suggestions here, it's working, i'm currently formatting it now.

Thank you!

Stone Is God

Try this: Right Cick on My Computer-->Manage-->Device Manger-->Highlight Universal Serial Bus-->At the top click on Action-->Scan for Hardware Changes.

Do that with the HD plug in. See what happens.

blondieblue227

cpu might not find it if it's plugged into a usb hub. plug it directly to your cpu.