My laptop acer aspire doesnt recognize my external hard drive in windows7

[sauravmalla]

Hello,
my laptop acer aspire doesnt recognize my external hard drive in windows7 what to do please help me. I will be great ful to them. it doesn't show any external hard drive but it shows pen drive and mobile usb cable but not external hard disk

 

[tmoseley@mtsd]

Hello,
my laptop acer aspire doesnt recognize my external hard drive in windows7 what to do please help me. I will be great ful to them. it doesn't show any external hard drive but it shows pen drive and mobile usb cable but not external hard disk

The drive may still be in a raw state and not formatted. Right click on "My Computer", select "Manage", select "Disk Management". Scroll through and you should see a drive that is Raw. Right click on the raw drive and create a simple volume. Once the drive is formatted then it will be assigned a drive letter and will show up under "My Computer".