External Drive not reading or showing up at Disk Management

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by superpet2, Apr 18, 2009.

  1. superpet2

    superpet2 Member

    Joined:
    Apr 4, 2009
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    11
    Hi people
    Currently I'm having trouble with my Segate 160Gb hard drive. It is in an external shell and it worked perfectly before.

    For some reason, when i use it now, the light of the external hard drive case flashes and the taskbar shows it installing the drive but it takes forever...

    It doesnt show up in the disk management as well... Am i suppose to do something?
     
  2. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

    Joined:
    Oct 15, 2004
    Messages:
    39,169
    Likes Received:
    137
    Trophy Points:
    143
    try it on another pc because if does same thing then either the enclosure or the hd inside of it is going bye bye. right now i think it is the hd is going so if not under warranty try it outside of enclosure or in another 1.
     
  3. cyprusrom

    cyprusrom Active member

    Joined:
    Jan 5, 2006
    Messages:
    5,439
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    96
    I had a similar problem; for me it was the USB port that went bad.
     

Share This Page