My WD 1TB External Hard Drive is not Recognised by mp PC

Asked By Quincy Nowell 10 points N/A Posted on - 06/18/2012

Its been a couple of days and I have experimented with it alot but could not understand why my PC does not recognise my Western Digital 1TB External Hard drive? I have reinstalled disk management but still the Hard Drive does not show up. Is my drive damaged?

• Status: Open
• Question Views: 870
• Answer Count: 1
• Vote Up 0 Vote Down

• Answer Accepted: No
• Question Category: Misc Hardware

Answered By Igor Pintic 0 points N/A #131992

My WD 1TB External Hard Drive is not Recognised by mp PC

 

Does your External Hard drive have 2 usb cables? Some external hard drives, usually high-capacity ones, have an extra USB cable, which is used to give additional power for the storage device. This power is much needed because it targets to have a fast and accurate access even if the storage capacity is very big. If using the 2 USB cables still does not make your hard drive to be detected, maybe the actual USB ports in your computer system are not working. Try to connect smaller-sized flash drives in your USB ports and see if they are detected normally. Let me know either way if the 2 methods above either worked or did not work.

About Igor Pintic

Questions
0

Answers
69

Best Answers
12

• Vote Up 0 Vote Down

• Posted on - 06/19/2012
• Question Category: Misc Hardware