When I plug in my external HDD I hear the USB noise, but it does not show up under My Computer. It does however show up and it allows me to safely remove the device, though it doesn't have the original device's name (FlexDrive). So instead of "Eject Flexdrive" it says "Eject External".
I've been having this problem with this HDD for a while now, but I would just eject it and plug it back in and it would recognize. This time it was a different story, it is not recognizing, even though it lights up and the disk starts to spin.
This is what disc management shows as well (also showing what I meant when trying to eject):
Looking at your Disk Management 149.05 GB is unallocated you might wanna format it and make it as health partition. Follow these steps
Right-click on the Unallocated hard disk space
Select New Simple Volume in the menu options
The New Simple Volume Wizard will appear. Click the Next button to start the wizard
Specify the volume size. The Wizard defaults to the maximum. When finished, click Next
Assign a drive letter or path, by default, the wizard will assign the next logical drive letter. This will be the best option for most users. Click Next
Format partition. By default the wizard will select NTFS with Default selected as allocation unit size. This is recommended for most users. The user also has the option of creating a volume label in the text box. Quick format is selected by default. Click Next
The Wizard will list the selected settings. Review the settings and click Finish
When the new disk partition is complete, a new empty window will appear on the desktop. The partition is formatted and ready for data storage.
Oh man, I don't want to make a new partition on this drive. And like I said, it used to work (it was working last night, for that matter), so I don't know why it's showing up as unallocated.
EDIT: lol, for example right now. I just ejected it and plugged it in again and autoplay came up... =/
EDIT2: And now that I have it working, this is what it looks like:
Maybe something wrong with the cable itself ... Glad that you got it working !! You might wanna consider running a diagnostic on the Hard drive because it's not a good acting like this.
Alright, well just updating: the drive totally died a few days ago, and I sent it in for RMA, when I get it back I will be replacing the RMA'd drive with my laptop's internal drive.
If you want to help me with that please go to this thread.