Some hubs have insufficient power for external drives to function, which may be the case with yours. If your device appeared in the Disk Management step, you can create a new drive volume and assign a drive letter. The Disk Management tool fixes partitioning and file system problems with different drives. If all else fails, you can replace your USB stick as a last resort method, though you can do this if the drive is already broken.
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I don't really have a clue about win 8. Every time I try to show something to my wife it's hers now , I have a problem reorienting to that display. At Xmas, my expert daughter, and her expert husband now using something else, tried to load a game on my gson's Win-8 laptop. He's a good tester. He broke a Lenovo laptop carrying it around by the display - the hinge melted. It was several minutes before I could recall to move the cursor to the upper right corner and try to interpret the icons.
I actually use it and I hate changing the way I organize files, use databases, write articles, books, order from Amazon, eg, download medical data, eg. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.
I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Hi, Welcome to Microsoft Community and we are glad to help you. Is it an exclamation mark or a question mark? Since, the USB driver is not able to recognize the external hard drive, perhaps, the hardware and device troubleshooter might resolve this issue.
I would suggest you to run Hardware and Devices troubleshooter for Windows 8 and check for the issue. Note: Hardware and Device troubleshooter checks for common problems and makes sure that any new device or hardware connected to your PC is installed correctly. If the issue does not get resolved by the above method, you may try to uninstall and reinstall the USB driver on the computer.
Follow the steps:. Under device manager, it shows the correct information that it's plugged in and working properly just won't show the folder to open its contents and save anything to it. I plugged it into my Surface Pro 2 and it showed up in the files explorer, just not on my laptop. I don't know what else to do. Anybody having this issue that can help?
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Jessen P. Hi Nathaniel, I appreciate the efforts which you took to get the issue resolved. This can be caused by any of the following: Your drive does not have a drive letter assigned to it in Disk Management The drive may be disabled or offline Your USB driver may be corrupted Corrupted registry keys may be causing issues with connecting toyour CD or DVD drive Method 1: Assign drive letter. And then, you will lose it forever.
See if your drive is here. Sometimes, it will be marked as Removable. If it does not contain any partition, you still can see an unallocated space. Step 2. Try the following solutions if your drive does not appear in Disk Management. Do not use USB hubs. The USB hub does not supply enough power for your drive. You should directly connect the drive to USB port. Plug flash drive into different computers. Create a new simple volume with Disk Management if your drive is marked as an unallocated space.
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