External HD Not Showing Up


  1. Posts : 2
    Windows 7
       #1

    External HD Not Showing Up


    Have searched the forum and saw some people with similar problems but I am unable to self diagnose/fix this problem. HD used to work fine but I haven't used it in months. It makes the noise when I plug it in but it does not show up under computer. Shows up in disk management as "Disk 1" (see screenshot) I have also included a screen shot from minitool partition wizard which some other posts said might be able to fix the problem. Any ideas?
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  2. Posts : 4,751
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit - Build 7600 SP1
       #2

    It appears it has not been formatted. Does it have any data on it?
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  3. Posts : 2
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #3

    It has 24GB of data on it. I do have a backup of the data so all is not lost. Has it crashed?
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  4. Posts : 4,751
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit - Build 7600 SP1
       #4

    This sounds like your problem here. Read this thread. disk 1 is unknown, not initialized, unallocated
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