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Portable Hard Drive Not Appearing

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Hi Guys.

I have just done a fresh install of windows 7 64bit, and updated windows online.

The operating system makes the sound in acknowledgment a device has been plugged in.
It doesnt appear in my computer, so logically I went to diskmgmt.msc and the driver appears there, with no driver letter or path. I attempt to left click and assign it one but am meet with the following error message, I refresh diskmgmt but am still meet with the error message. The drive has been working fine, I used it to copy install files off the pc before I did a fresh install, it has important photography and video work on it. So I cant afford to reformat the drive. I am pretty sure I formatted it to fat32 when I first bought it. I have tried restarting cimputer with drive plugged in I have also had it plugged in numerous usb ports including usb 3.

How do I make the drive useable and appear in my computer?

Thanks,
George.

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Try this

Try using diskpart to assign a drive letter to Disk #0, Partition #1.
· Click Start Orb > type diskpart
· Right-click diskpart in results above > click Run as administrator
· Once diskpart loads type list volume, press enter
You should notice that you will see your partition that you use for your data, it should not show a drive letter assigned to it.
· Type select volume 6 (replace 6 with the volume number assigned to the partition in question)
· Type assign letter Z (replace Z with the letter that you want to assign to it)
When you look in Computer, you should be able to see your partition.

But when that dosent work boot from a linux live CD and see if will mount there. If so back it up and reformat.
 
thurstmw said:
Try this

Try using diskpart to assign a drive letter to Disk #0, Partition #1.
· Click Start Orb > type diskpart
· Right-click diskpart in results above > click Run as administrator
· Once diskpart loads type list volume, press enter
You should notice that you will see your partition that you use for your data, it should not show a drive letter assigned to it.
· Type select volume 6 (replace 6 with the volume number assigned to the partition in question)
· Type assign letter Z (replace Z with the letter that you want to assign to it)
When you look in Computer, you should be able to see your partition.

But when that dosent work boot from a linux live CD and see if will mount there. If so back it up and reformat.
Click to expand...

I have tried the following as you will see below the drive fails to appear in diskpart but still appears in diskmgmt.msc. Im going to trying plugging the harddrive into another computer and assign in a letter.

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I plugged the hard drive into my old computer and assigned it to K, removed it then try again in my new computer and same old.
Windows sounds acknowledgment of a deive being plugged in, it appears in diskmgmt.msc, but has no letter assigned to it and the same error appears when I try to assign it a letter.

This is really starting to annoy me, am I going to have to reinstall windows yet again?
 
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