External Hard Drive unallocated only on Windows 10

camozouskytechy · Sep 27, 2016

My external hard drive works perfectly fine on my desktop (Windows 7), my laptop (Windows 8.1) but when I plug it into my brothers computer and my fathers (Both have windows 10) they say my drive is unallocated but it really isn't. My drive use to work on Windows 10 but it was after the very recent update (Like a few days ago) it has stopped loading my data on Windows 10 PCs. Any thoughts?

Multipack · Sep 27, 2016

Can you see the disk in Disk Management or the BIOS?

camozouskytechy · Sep 27, 2016

Multipack :

Yes I can, just says unallocated. But I'm not going to format it because I know there is data on it still.

Multipack · Sep 27, 2016

That isn't why I was asking really. What disk is it?

camozouskytechy · Sep 27, 2016

Multipack :

ADATA HV620 500gb External USB 3.0 Hard Drive

http://www.adata.com/en/hdd/specification/219

Multipack · Sep 27, 2016

Is it assigned a drive letter? If not, it could have one that's already in use on Windows 10 PC's. And you'd have to change it. Maybe try plugging the hard drive into them before booting Windows too.

camozouskytechy · Sep 27, 2016

Multipack :

Just tried both of those and it's still having the same issue.

D_Know_WD · Sep 28, 2016

Hi there camozouskytechy,

You can see if this update would fix the issue: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3193494
In case the issue persists, you can back up all the data stored on the drive, attach it to the Win 10 system, repartition and reformat, see if the drive would be recognized on all computers.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

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