Hard Disk not detected, PLEASE HELP!

Bruner85

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Hey i just recently bought a external hard drive from my neighbor and im trying to hook it up to a brand new dell latitude e6530 and it wont show it attached or in my computer. anyone have any ideas
 
Go into Disk Management to see if it is shown there.
If it is, it may just need a drive-letter assigning to it, as Windows often fails to do this automatically with external hard drives.

In the bottom-right panel of Disk Management, right-click the ribbon which relates to that drive (it usually says "Raw" on it's ribbon).

Choose "Change Drive Letter & Paths".
Click "Add".
Choose letter.
Click 'OK'
Wait for Disk Management to update itself.