Forums • News & Announcements • WD Knowledge Base
turn on suggestions Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Reply
Topic Options
Occasional Visitor
dsexton321
Posts: 3
Registered: ‎05-13-2012
0

Hard Drive not being recognized (makes noise when I plug it in but nothing pops up)

Options

‎05-13-2012 07:55 PM

I've had the hard drive for about 5 months now and haven't had any problems until the power in our house went out for a few hours today. The hard drive shows up in DIsk Management and in Device Manager but not so I can view the contents. In DIsk Management there is no Drive Letter, but I'm not sure how to fix that if that is the problem. 

Report Inappropriate Content
Message 1 of 3 (320 Views)
 
Honored Contributor
Joe_S
Posts: 4,400
Registered: ‎08-04-2010
0

Re: Hard Drive not being recognized (makes noise when I plug it in but nothing pops up)

Options

‎05-13-2012 08:51 PM

Tryy going into disk Management and find the drive down in the bars and right click on it and select assign drive letter. Also see if it says anything there like Raw or Unallocated.

Joe

Click the Kudos star to say thank you for helpful posts. And be sure to come back to click the 'Accept as Solution' button for the post that solved your issue.
Report Inappropriate Content
Message 2 of 3 (318 Views)
 
Occasional Visitor
dsexton321
Posts: 3
Registered: ‎05-13-2012
0

Re: Hard Drive not being recognized (makes noise when I plug it in but nothing pops up)

Options

‎05-13-2012 08:55 PM

I couldn't find anything about assigning a drive but it does say it is Unallocated

Report Inappropriate Content
Message 3 of 3 (314 Views)
 
Forums | Ideas | News and Announcements | Register | Sign in | Help | Forum Guidelines
Copyright © 2001 - 2010 Western Digital Corporation, All rights reserved. | Trademarks | Privacy | Terms of Service | Terms of Use | Copyright | Contact WD