The first thing I would do is to go into Disk Management and make sure the drive has been assigned a drive letter. This happened to me a few months ago. My external HD did not have a drive letter assigned so Windows would not see it even though it shows up OK in Device Manager.

Keep in mind there are other situations that could cause this problem. This just happened to be mine at the time.

Info Links:

https://windowsreport.com/windows-10-doesnt-recognize-portable-hard-drive/ (Solution #2, just the drive letter portion!)

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-assign-a-drive-letter-in-windows-10/

https://www.howtogeek.com/96298/assign-a-static-drive-letter-to-a-usb-drive-in-windows-7/ (Also good for versions 8 & 10)

Before you do any of this, make sure you have no outstanding issues when you look at your Device Manager.


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