The cleanly installed windows 7 is not reading my external hard drive


  1. heman90210
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    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
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    The cleanly installed windows 7 is not reading my external hard drive


    I have a WD5000D032-000 pocket 500 Gig. It worked on my vista 32 bit home. I updated to windows 7 home premium 64 bit edition and now my computer can't read it. It is displayed under Device manager just not My Computer
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  3. Corazon
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    Windows 7 Professional SP1 32-bit
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    Does it have a drive letter? Please provide a screenshot from Disk Management.

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