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Seagate external hard drive not showing up in my computer. It is detected.

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  • External Hard Drive
  • Computers
  • Storage
  • Seagate
  • Windows XP
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October 10, 2014 7:10:49 AM

My 320 GB Seagate external hard drive is detected but not showing up in my computer. What should I do?

In cmd> diskpart> list volume it does not show up. (screenshot attached)

In Device Manager it gets detected. (screenshot attached)

In disk management it shows up as 'unallocated'. If I initialize it, will I lose all data on the drive? It had 4 partitions. (screenshot attached)

In My Computer also it does not show up. (screenshot attached)


Even BIOS recognizes it.

What to do? I don't want to lose any data on the drive. If I initialize it in device manager will I lose data?

I was installing window XP on my computer, usually I remove the external drive but this time I did not. The external drive was shown as 4 drives in partition manager during installation. But the installation failed. The next time I was installing windows again, the external drive was shown as 1 single unknown or unrecognized drive. I'm not sure if it was unknown or unrecognized. I'm sure I didn't format it. So what I need to do now? I don't want to lose any data.

UPDATE:
I'm not able to upload screenshots here, you can check my post here for screenshots:
http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/348392-seag...

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October 10, 2014 7:19:46 AM

can't see screenshots...
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October 10, 2014 7:33:22 AM

americanbrian said:
can't see screenshots...


please check the link in update, my post with screenshots are posted there.
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October 10, 2014 7:39:11 AM

huilun02 said:
Have you tried running checkdisk utility with the drive plugged in?

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/window...


From RUN> chkdsk I started it.
A black windows comes up.
A message says "Warning! F parameter not specified. Running CHKDSK in read-only mode" After this CHKDSK verifies files and indexes, it completes and black window closes automatically.
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16 minutes ago

Try running it the manual way.

Open My Computer, right click on your external drive and select properties, under the Tools tab click 'Check now...'

If the drive is in use, it will ask to schedule a disk check. Accept it and reboot.
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