My external hard drive is not showing up on my computer

[nebat]

Hello,
my external hard drive is not showing up on my computer but in disk management and i click on it it is not giving me the highlighted commands e.g. format, mark partition as active & e.t.c

 

[inzone]

What type of connection is the external hard drive using ? If usb have you tried a different usb port ?

 

[inerax]

hook it to another computer. Same thing?

if you get the same thing i would pull apart the drive case. Hook up the regular HDD to your computer as an internal.

The bridge in external drives likes to fail lots.