Was working OK and then I put it in and no drive letter shows up. Windows disk manager says "no media" How to Fix?
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Sadly it's probably dead. These things do wear out after a while! Try it on a different computer, but it's likely just done - sorry! :(
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I have discovered with this and other external drives, that sometimes with older computers -- or ones that are 'finicky' -- if the drive is not being 'read' or refuses to appear on your desktop -- you may need to use a powered reader or distribution type amp so that your computer will recognize it....
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I would contact PNY and see if they can assist you. Have you tried formatting it? Sometimes that helps. If you had anything on it you didnt want to loose this may not work.
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I wish I could answer this one for you. It sound to me like your computer isn't recognizing the it as a disk and for some reason cannot open it. It could also be corrupt or broken. my advice is to To contact the company would you bought it through amazon and see if they can give you some advice.
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Always worth the shot. But: What OS? External Drive or Internal? Do other Drives work ok? I've never known DW to damage a drive, but it will tell you if it can't do it.You tried rebooting? Does the errant drive show up on Disk Utility from a different drive? Checked cable connections are intact? (try a different cable) . Tried Data Rescue 2 to salvage data?
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The light comes one but drive will not show up in the bios or device manager.
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If u are trying to get the drive to show / read, u may have to right click on the letter then Mark Partition as Active. It also may need formatted 1st, which is in the same pop up menu
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Sorry to tell you, yeah it's a bad drive. These aren't official Microsoft hard drives, so sometimes they won't work. Try returning it. Mine works pretty nice, but had I known that it wasn't actually produced by Microsoft, I wouldn't have bought it.
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Fornat it.. just type in youtube " How to Format a Hard drive or SSD drive" if that wont work... than its prob broken, i suggest returning it if it is
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It should recognize is, there should be an updated drive to view it. Check the Seagate website for that.
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It should work. What do you mean not recognized? Can you not see the drive in Disk Utilities in order to format the drive?
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Two things you can try... 1. Try and reinstall it from scratch. As if it is brand new. OR... Check your device manager in your computer and make sure it is selected. Hope it helps! :-) (And what you'll want to select is the BD (which is your external disc drive we're trying to get recognized)...
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I'm using Win 7 G4 bit also. And Yes, I needed to load special drivers, for configure the disk for boot I did the following: 1) Create a new windows installation but just for load the drives that the card's cd have. You can see the drive but can't use it. Reset.2) Create again a new windows installation. Select the new drive, format it and use it.
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Mmm ,,, What install/set Bios?? ... I put mine in and the system recognized it as drive g: and Done. Could be a bad drive as Andre says ... Try formating. My Sys is Win7/63bit HP Elite. If your replacing C: then use the transfer program from WD Free and works great.
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Thank you for this post. I have beat my head for hours trying to figure out how to get the player to show up as a drive. This worked for me.
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I first tried an existing hard drive. It did not need formatting. When I installed a new hard drive and it didn't work, I assumed the Mediasonic wasn't working and returned it. Later when I installed the new hard drive in my PC, I found that it did need to be formatted. Therefore, I'm not sure if formatting was an issue in my case. Based on the other answer you received, maybe I did return the case when I really didn't have to.
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Hard to tell, but if the drive was working fine before putting it in the enclosure, then there's a good chance the enclosure is defective. The quality is pretty bad, unfortunately... Same thing happened to me. I complained and got a replacement. Any chance you can put your drive in a different enclosure, to test it?
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Try another disk, if that doesn't change then possibly your missing or damaged driver for the drive. Other possibly the drive I'd bad.
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I have had the same problem using other devices with Windows 7 (which as a "disk operating system" is a total bust!) Sometimes it helps to plug in a different memory card or USB device before reinserting the first card or device- give that a shot. Windows 7 allows me to eject the drive from Windows Explorer which works better than using the icon in the notification area of the taskbar.
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Hey Mark, well the funny thing is that I sent this thing back. It just wouldn't format. No matter what I did, or cable I used it didn't work. It also had problems with using the firewire cable. I think I got it to recognize the HD ONCE, and then it said it would take almost 17 hours to format it. I honestly think something was wrong with the drive itself, but I didn't want another one to try. I figured I'd wait.