![]() Right-click it & choose " Change Drive Letter & Paths". In the bottom-right panel, look for a bar which has no drive letter and has the word "Raw" on it, no drive name. Have you checked to see that it might simply need a drive-letter assigning to it?Ĭontrol Panel > Admin Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management. In any case, if the drive used to work okay without downloading a driver, why would it need a driver downloading now? That's because the driver for 99% of external hard drives is built in to Windows - a Microsoft mass storage driver. " I can't really find any drivers or software for this drive online" I still have this covered under warranty but don't want it to be replaced unless I recover the data on it, which means I don't really want to crack the enclosure open and void the warranty. I've swapped USB cables to check if that was the issue. When I plug it in, the drive boots up and sounds normal as it always has, the light comes on in the front just as always. The drive has it's own power supply via AC adapter and then connects to the PC via USB. I've seen so many post about similar issue's on this External HDD yet none seem to have a decent solution. I can't really find any drivers or software for this drive online and the software it came with was installed once plugging the drive in. I've looked all over for it, I'm not even seeing it in Device Manager as an Unknown Mass Storage Device. This same exact thing happened with my Handyman external HDD. It's not showing up in My Computer, Disk Management or Seatools nor will any of my other computers running Windows XP, and Vista recognize it. Weeks later I plugged it in again, and nothing. I recently built a new desktop running Windows 7 Ultimate, when I plugged it in the first time I had no issue's. It used to work fine on both my laptops and old desktop. I been having some trouble with my external Maxtor Onetouch 4 hard drive.
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