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My seagate 1tb external hard drive is showing up in device manager, but not under disk management or my computer

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  • Device Manager
  • Computers
  • Storage
  • External Hard Drive
  • Seagate
  • Disk Management
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February 20, 2014 1:47:05 PM

My external hard drive is showing in device manager, is also makes the beep noise and lights up when attached; it used to have a pop up window when i plugged it in asking whether I wanted to view the files, that no longer happens, it also isn't displayed under my computer or device management, I'm on windows 8 but the problem started on my windows 7, it does the same thing on other computers

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February 20, 2014 5:04:09 PM

go to computer management and under storage tab click disk management may u will find it there if find it u have to format it to see in my computer or start using it
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February 20, 2014 5:21:28 PM

Is it a new hard drive? If so, you must initialize it and create partition before making it usable.
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February 20, 2014 6:02:23 PM

Just format this drive and see whether it gets the same problem.
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February 21, 2014 2:32:10 AM

moeid97 said:
go to computer management and under storage tab click disk management may u will find it there if find it u have to format it to see in my computer or start using it



It's not showing under disk management or my computer :( 
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May 23, 2014 9:59:34 PM

same for me It's not showing under disk management or device manager
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June 17, 2014 9:57:06 PM

Does formatting the disk erase all data? My external hard disk is shown up in disk mgmt & device manager both but undetected in my computer. Please help me on this. Please!!!!!

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June 27, 2014 1:00:08 PM

moeid97 said:
go to computer management and under storage tab click disk management may u will find it there if find it u have to format it to see in my computer or start using it


Thanks . It worked.
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July 15, 2014 8:16:00 AM

Bermudez said:
Is it a new hard drive? If so, you must initialize it and create partition before making it usable.


What if it doesn't allow me to format or partition it?

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September 24, 2014 6:03:53 PM

gingermoll said:
My external hard drive is showing in device manager, is also makes the beep noise and lights up when attached; it used to have a pop up window when i plugged it in asking whether I wanted to view the files, that no longer happens, it also isn't displayed under my computer or device management, I'm on windows 8 but the problem started on my windows 7, it does the same thing on other computers


I encountered the same problem. Checked devices - drive now showed up as BKUP drive. Tried everything - checked settings for File Recovery if used, Recovery, and then I remembered that I had Windows Restore set up. Picked an earlier recovery point - drive was back as a USB external hard drive. Formatting the drive would have erased everything; couldn't mount the drive per say - this is some nuance in Windows 8.1 that I can't quite explain.
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