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    External hard drive shows up in Device Manager but not in 'Computer' on desktop

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by allfiredup, Jun 26, 2015.

  1. allfiredup

    allfiredup Notebook Virtuoso

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    Both of my laptops have a 128GB SSD, so I use a 2GB Seagate portable external drive for all of my files. I am running Windows 7 Pro and suddenly it isn't showing the Seagate drive when I click on the 'Computer' icon on my desktop. When I go to Device Manager, it shows the Seagate drive when it is connected and shows that it is working properly. But I have no way to actually access the drive.

    Any advice?
     
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    Take a look in disk management - maybe you just need to tell Windows to assign a drive letter to the disk?
     
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    That did the trick! Never had to do that before but now I know how if it ever comes up again. THANKS!
     
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    Happy to help!!
     
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