My passport external hard drive not recognized

#MY PASSPORT EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE NOT RECOGNIZED WINDOWS 10#
#MY PASSPORT EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE NOT RECOGNIZED PORTABLE#
#MY PASSPORT EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE NOT RECOGNIZED SOFTWARE#
#MY PASSPORT EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE NOT RECOGNIZED PC#

Set the type of MBR based on your current operating system. Right click the uninitialized disk and choose вЂњ Rebuild MBRвЂќ. Then you can follow the steps to rebuild MBR on the external hard drive.

#MY PASSPORT EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE NOT RECOGNIZED SOFTWARE#

Under this case, what you should do is to rebuild MBR via reliable and software - AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard.ДЇirst of all, free download AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard. When it is damaged by some accidents such as virus attacks or inappropriate operation, the hard drive might display as unknown and not initialized external hard drive in Disk Management. It is well-known that MBR or Master Boot Record is essential to a hard drive. Notice: As initialization will cause data loss, youвЂ™d better backup all the important data on the external hard drive before initializing it. Right click the disk and choose вЂњ Create New Simple VolumeвЂќ. Select вЂњ Initialize DiskвЂќ and set the disk partition style as MBR or GPT.ДЈ. Right click the hard drive that needs to be initializedДў. When the external hard drive is not initialized and appears as an unallocated space or without showing disk capacity, you can initialize it as follows:ДЎ. After that, you can access the hard drive from File Explorer. Firstly, right click the partition that doesnвЂ™t have a drive letter and choose вЂњ Change Drive Letter and Path.вЂќ Then click on вЂњAddвЂќ, choose a drive letter and click вЂњ OKвЂќ to give it a drive letter. At this time, you should assign a drive letter. When the external has no drive letter, it will be invisible in File Explorer. Assign a drive letter to the external hard drive

#MY PASSPORT EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE NOT RECOGNIZED WINDOWS 10#

When the hard drive doesn't appear in Windows 10 File Explorer but in Disk Management, you can try the following 3 methods. в–ђВ External hard drive not showing up in Windows 10В Explorer but in Disk Management

And you can take acorroding solutions if it is showing up in Windows 10 Disk Management or not appearing in Disk Management. If your external hard drive (portable hard drive) won't showВ in Windows 10 Explorer as well, the following steps will guide you to solve the issue and make the external drive appears.ДЇirst of all, letвЂ™s open Disk Management to see the condition of this hard drive (Press вЂњ Window sвЂќ+ вЂњ RвЂќ, type вЂњdiskmgmt.mscвЂќ and hit вЂњ EnterвЂќ, you will access Disk Management interface).

Solutions forВ external hard drive not showing up in Windows 10/11 Then, you wonвЂ™t be able to open it to use the files stored on it. However, it is possible that the external hard drive not showing up in Windows 10/11 File Explorer or вЂњThis PCвЂќ. In most cases, external hard drive or the second hard drive will present automatically after connected to your computer.

#MY PASSPORT EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE NOT RECOGNIZED PORTABLE#

With large capacity, external hard drive, also called portable hard drive, is always used to store or back up data. If the HDD is confirmed unreadble on at least 2 computers, HDD is 100% failed.ДЄs mentioned above, if you keep very important data, consider using even a second backup (back-up of your data, back-up of the back-up), consider using online storage paid services such as Microsoft Office 365/OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.External hard drive not showing up in Windows 10/11 I recommend you try with a different cable/connector. I cannot recommend such a company as I not aware of the companies in your region. There are some companies specialized in data recovery and they might be able to access data on your HDD (even it it is corrupted), but there is no guarantee and this would be a rare chance (low chance), and their services are usually expensive. If your HDD is confirmed unreadable/inaccessible/corrupted, chances for data access/recovery are very low. This will mean that the data is probably lost.

#MY PASSPORT EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE NOT RECOGNIZED PC#

If your data cannot be read by a different PC and even with a different cable/connector, then this will confirm 100% that the HDD is unreable/failed. If it still fails with different cable/connector, this confirms that the HDD is unreable. If you need to get the HDD out of the box (if you use such a box) and use a different connector (different cable or adapter) like the one I placed picture of above. You have tried with a different computer which confirms the problem is not in your own PC (component (3) ).Д«ased on the symptoms most likely the hard disk drive failure. Hi are 3 components in this case which needs to be verified:Дў) the cable/connector - makes connection between external HDD and the computer I'm worrying if all my data would have been lost? Could you please tell me what all the possible reasons, that this kind of Hard disk failures?ДЄny possible soultions, I can retrieve my data from my HDD? Please suggest. I tried connecting with a different PC/Laptop, no actions.Д®verytime when I connect my HDD, I could see the Hard Drive Name, Since this issue raises, I could see only the name as Portable HD BB07 in the taskbar.

My passport external hard drive not recognized