How To Find Your External Hard Drive In Windows 11

How To Find Your External Hard Drive In Windows 11

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) connects billions of keyboards, mice, joysticks, printers, external hard drives and other peripherals to roughly 1.5bn personal computers, and more than 3bn mobile phones use the smaller Micro USB and newer USB-C versions. It generally works pretty well but most people have probably suffered from a USB device failing or not being recognized.

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Sometimes our PC fails or just refuses to recognize the External Hard Drive even after confirming the successful connection. The problem occurs mostly when the device driver is either corrupted or outdated. Such problems can be quite tricky to fix. You can spend hours but find no solution. Try these workarounds and see if the problem of the External Hard Drive not being detected in Windows 11/8/7 is resolved.

This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 11 operating system (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Huawei and Samsung.

[bubbawubba]

@1:13 mark when I right click on it there is only 2 options that I can click on. Delete volume and help. I can see the change drive letter and path but can't click it.

[Redturret]

Thanks, watching this helped somewhat and it’s fixed my issue because it shows up in the my pc next to the system storage.

[Shreebs]

When I right click the (Disk 1 partition 2), all of the options in the drop down bar are greyed out and unable to be selected. Do you have any advice on what to do?

[lancenorris]

What do you do if it isn’t showing up at all. I need to reformat it but it is not showing up for me to do so.

[reigh]

My drive on this machine is showing up as one big unallocated block below the area you were working with the table of details. Since it's not in the table of details I cannot select it and give it a drive letter. Any suggestions? In devices and printers, it shows as "expansion" and I can still safely eject it.

[mcbigswig]

Are you sure this is for Windows 11? Mine is not showing up at the top, but it is on the bottom of the screen, but right clicking on it only gives me "New Simple Volume", "Help", and "Properties" options.

[curbstompzombiekillerz]

it solved my problem but now i cant see what used to be on there...

[fern]

When I type in disc management it opens up a bing search not what pop ups on your screen.

[Mr.Megaverse]

yea but how do i use my storage portable drive

[arieffaturohman]

Thanks bro.., this tutorial has solved my problem

[kreeepzzz]

i have a question all those extra drived that are 100% free can i switch to that for axample my pc has 400 gigs on it and how do i switch it to a 600 free of space one?

[SweboySMM]

Fuck I HATE my new computer... W11 is just GARBAGE!!! My W7 worked with whatever you did. Don't know why you must "program" the f-ing computer to access stuff. Should JUST WORK!
Says _'it is not available'_ and it _'can not read it'._ Format 'RAW', and not 'NTFS' as IT IS in W7...

[realspilltv]

the request failed due to a fatal device hardware error external drive

[adambeltran]

I have a little galaxy go book 5G. I had an old Samsung Evo 970 SSD with an external enclosure. I was gonna use it to expand my storage on the good book. But i plugged it up and it's not showing up. I tried what you did but nothing.. it says unallocated, not allocated. I tried right clicking on it just properties and help are showing up. Need your brain. 😀

[holi]

Can you help? My old laptop died. Repair shop put its HD into a sata enclosure. I have new laptop now and its picked up the usb/ sata drive but i cant seem to find anything clear or understandable, i dont know what to access for documents, photos, etc! And dont want to break new laptop or the drive with my old HD!

[nealthompson]

I just want to access my iPhone. How do I do this. I just want to click on iPhone like I used to in “this pc”

[soruthjar]

what if my pc still can't find it?

[curry]

When I right click it just says (help)?

[jayant]

Thanks I thought my laptop not build 1tb storage 😂

[alienman]

My search bar is usless it brings up Bing browser results everytime.