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.
Install and fire up it. Then you can follow the steps to rebuild MBR on the external hard drive. Step 1. Step 2. Set the type of MBR based on your current operating system. Note: You can get more advanced functions, like recoverig lost partition on external hard drive , converting system disk from MBR to GPT without data loss, if you upgrade it to Professional version.
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Are you able to connect any other device to the laptop? The process is as follows:. Try solutions here to fix it. Download Partition Wizard. Summary : Some people report that their external drives are not recognized by Windows 10 when they use a Sabrent hard drive adapter.
Type disk management and click on it. Step 3. Note: As formatting causes data loss, don't forget to use data recovery software in fix 3 to bring back all your hard drive data after making the drive show up. Applies to: Fix hard drive not showing up but displays as unallocated or unknown, new hard drive show as not initialized in Disk Management.
If a used hard disk suddenly becomes unallocated, it could be due to accidental deletion, virus attack, or other unknown reasons that cause partition loss on your disk. In this case, you should recover data from the unallocated space first. And then, create a new volume s on the disk to make the hard drive show up.
Professional hard drive recovery software - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard can fully scan a lost partition and bring back your files from unallocated hard drive space.
The software will mark the unallocated space on your disk as a lost partition so you can directly select to scan and find everything on the drive:. Use "Filter" or "Search" to find the lost files on the selected hard drive.
Select all the files you want and click "Recover", and browse another secure location to save them. Make sure to save the recovered files to another secure location before making the hard drive showing up and ensuring it's safe to save files again.
After retrieving all your precious files, you can now create a new partition to make your hard disk show up and usable again on the computer. Right-click the unallocated space of your hard drive and choose "New Simple Volume Step 4.
Set the volume size, assign a drive letter to the volume, and set NTFS as the file system, and click "Next". Step 5. Click "Finish" when Disk Management shows it has created a new volume on your hard drive. Applies to: Fix hard drive not showing up in File Explorer error caused by conflicted drive letter or hard drive has no drive letter. When the drive letter of your hard drive conflicts with another drive letter on the computer, the hard drive will show as New Volume in Disk Management.
As a result, it won't show up in File Explorer. So, the best way to make your hard drive show up is to change its drive letter. Here are the steps to do that:. In Disk Management, right-click the hard drive marked as New Volume or the partition doesn't have a drive letter. Select "Change Drive Letter and Paths". In the new window, click "Change". Assign a new drive letter to your external or internal hard drive and click "OK".
Applies to: Fix hard drive not showing up in File Explorer, hard disk has a yellow exclamation mark in Disk Management. If your hard drive has a yellow exclamation mark in Disk Management under the Disk Driver section, it means that the drive driver is outdated. Find and right-click the problematic external or internal drive and select "Update driver".
Wait for the driver to be updated, then reboot your computer.
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