i have a western digital USB hard drive and my windows currently have the latest usb driver.. the problem is the explorer doesn't detect the usb drive but it is detected on Device Manager. I tried disk management but the usb drive still not found..
how can i use my new WD USB Drive if it is not accesible? WD doesn't care about this after all..
i really nid help with this.. those answers with sense...
thank you!
2006-12-22 17:38:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Western digital has software free to download to help you with this problem. Have you formatted the drive? The last time I had this problem I got so frustrated I took the drive out of the enclosure and installed it as a slave and formatted it.
2006-12-22 18:11:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
how old is your computer?
the new drives are for usb 2
your system may be usb 1
now we need to do some research here which port have you pluged it into
do you have a remove usb devices icon on your task bar right bottom
take the drive out... restart your system
plug in the usb drive,, it should say found new hardware
could be that the usb port is not working. go into the device manager and see if you have any question marks against any usb devices if you have then your missing some drivers
2006-12-23 01:54:55 · answer #2 · answered by Carling 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check the drive letters. Do you have anything that is already installed on a d, e or f drive? Like a pda or another cd drive or external hard drive or mapped drive? Try changing the letter of that drive and I'll bet the usb drive shows up.
2006-12-23 01:55:34 · answer #3 · answered by colleen m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a common problem. Use disk management, under administrative tools - in control panel, then find that drive listed. Right click it, and "assign drive letter". That will do it.
2006-12-23 02:21:27 · answer #4 · answered by R W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋