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The Update Driver button is off. When I go to the Device Manager - Disk Drives - WD Elements 1042 USB Device and I try to update the driver, they tell me 'Windows has determined the driver software for your device is up to date.' Even so, the hdd is not recognized as an external drive by Windows and not appearing in My Computer.
Hey guys I'm running Windows 7 64-bits in my new desktop and the problem is that although I connect my external wd elements windows recognizes it, installs the drivers but it does not appear on My Computer. It does show on device manager and I tried updating the drives and unninstalling the drive and installing again and nothing, I tried both my front usb 3.0 connectors and my mb connectors. Untill 4th July which was a week ago I was using that exact same external drive as a boot device with Linux on an old laptop and now I wanted to format it and use it as a backup drive.Does anybody have a solution for this? The drive is 9 months old. Maybe that drive is hidden. Using a drive as a boot drive sometimes automatically hides the drive so that users basically cant mess around with the bootloaders etc.
Try this: search partition manager in your start menu and open the program. Then look for the drive there. It'll look something like thisyou might've assigned the drive a drive letter or label, if you did try to search for that name. If you didnt then windows might've done that for you. Since it's an external drive, it'll probably appear in its own separate section in the sense that there will be a horizontal line dividing your internal drive from your external one. When you do find the drive click on it and 'unhide' it.
I did fing it there although it had no letter associated with it. And how do I 'unhide' it? Thanks a lotwell i use a software called 'EaseUS Partition manager', makes life so much easier and is alot better than win 7s own disk manager. Do you like apples gif.
But here is how i think you do this in windows 7: right click on the drive and then click 'change drive letters and paths' and then click 'Add'. Assign the drive whatever letter and/ or name you want then.EDIT: btw you mentioned you wanted to use it as a backup drive, after you've assigned it a label you can then format it. 'EaseUS' also has a 'backup and recovery tool' software, i use it myself so just thought i'd tell you that. I did fing it there although it had no letter associated with it. And how do I 'unhide' it?
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Thanks a lotwell i use a software called 'EaseUS Partition manager', makes life so much easier and is alot better than win 7s own disk manager. But here is how i think you do this in windows 7: right click on the drive and then click 'change drive letters and paths' and then click 'Add'. Assign the drive whatever letter and/ or name you want then.EDIT: btw you mentioned you wanted to use it as a backup drive, after you've assigned it a label you can then format it.
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'EaseUS' also has a 'backup and recovery tool' software, i use it myself so just thought i'd tell you thatFor some reason I couldn click the 'change drive letters and paths' option so I installed EaseUS, how do I do it here? Thanks a lot for the help.