mattjones16
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- May 21, 2009
I have the EXACT same problem. I also only have the problem with my WD Passport external HDD. It turns on, spins, and lights up, but just does not show up in windows 7. Someone please help.I'm using the release candidate and whenever I plug in my Western Digital Passport USB external hard drive, I get nothing. It doesn't show up in device manager or in My Computer. The light on the harddrive comes on and the drive spins up, so I know it's working. Windows just won't recognize it. Any ideas?
I did this:
Go: control panel
administrative tools
computer management
disk management
scroll down the list of drives and your drive should be there.
If it is there you may need to assign a drive letter, I have had this happen in Vista with certain thumb drives also once happened in W-7