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I was looking through some boxes and I found an old external hard drive. It was from 2009 and I had completely forgotten about it. It's Seagate expansion portable drive 250gb. I bought a usb cable and figured I would get some use out of it. My issue is that I can't get Windows to recognize the drive, there is a green light that just flashes.

This is the drive.

I don't even see the drive in the device manager. How do I get Windows 10 to recognize the drive?
 
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The easiest and cheapest method is get this very parctical and useful gadget from here for under $10

https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1411767844&sr=8-10&pldnSite=1

Also this one here for under $6:
https://www.amazon.com/SANOXY-A12940-Drive-Adapter-Converter/dp/B001OORMVQ?tag=askinfovinedelta-20

You will be able to use any hard drive model by just connecting it to your desktop or laptop thru a USB port. There are many gadgets like the two above available many places and sell for similar prices. Get one and you can use it forever.
Good luck.

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Does it also need a power cable from the wall? Or possibly a dual head USB cable?
 
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No, just a mini usb cable. Nothing is recognizing the drive so could it be the drive is ruined?
 
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Seagate Expansion portable drive 250 gb. Don't see a model but the Serial is 2GH2GNC3

 
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The easiest and cheapest method is get this very parctical and useful gadget from here for under $10

https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1411767844&sr=8-10&pldnSite=1

Also this one here for under $6:
https://www.amazon.com/SANOXY-A12940-Drive-Adapter-Converter/dp/B001OORMVQ?tag=askinfovinedelta-20

You will be able to use any hard drive model by just connecting it to your desktop or laptop thru a USB port. There are many gadgets like the two above available many places and sell for similar prices. Get one and you can use it forever.
Good luck.

 
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I don't think there ever were "portable hard drives" for USB2 that can get enough power to work with only a standard USB2 cable. Such units came in either of two configurations to deal with this.

1. The unit has an additional socket that accepts power input from a separate power supply "brick" that comes with the drive unit. You MUST use this to provide the power it needs.
2. Alternatively, with no such extra socket, the unit came with a special USB2 cable that had TWO standard connectors on one end. You must plug BOTH of them into separate USB2 connectors on the host computer. In that way the external drive unit can get power from both host ports, and that is sufficient for it to work. If you don't find that special cable lying around, you might get one from a used parts computer shop.
 
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