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Expand Universal Serial Bus controllers > Right-click every USB device found there and select Uninstall.ģ. Click on Start > Type: devmgmt.msc in Search to open Device Manager by hitting Enter.Ģ.

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Update WD external hard drive driver to make it workġ. You can follow below-offered methods to get problems fixed right now: When WD external hard drive, USB or other brands of storage devices are not working or not responding to any operations in your PC, don't worry.

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Restart PC and your External hard drive will show up and work again.įix WD external hard drive not working/responding issue.

Assign the drive with a new letter that doesn't exist in your PC and mark the Partition as Active.

Go Disk Management > Find your external hard drive and right click it by choosing Change Drive Letter and Path.

Right-click on This PC/My Computer > Select Manage.

The other way is to change the drive letter with Disk Management tool so to make unrecognized or undetectable WD external hard drive to show up in PC: Change drive letter to make unrecognized WD external hard drive detectable

Then check whether the WD external hard disk can be detected or not.

Press F4 to initiate PC reboot into Safe Mode.

PC will automatically boot into another Startup Settings screen.

Tab on Recovery > Advanced Startup > Restart now.

Reboot PC into Safe Mode to make WD external hard drive recognizable

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Here you have two methods to follow and fix WD external hard drive not recognized or undetectable error in Windows 10/8/7: Fix WD external hard drive not recognized error If this quick fix doesn't work, relax and just follow below-offered methods to repair not working WD external hard drive or devices now. Go to Power Management and uncheck Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power.Īfter this, reboot PC and reconnect WD external hard drive to your PC, then you'll be able to use the drive again. Right-click on the USB Root Hub > Select Properties.Ĥ. Open Device Manager > Expand Universal Serial Bus controllers.ģ. Click Start > Type: devmgmt.msc in the Search box and hit Enter.Ģ. Quick fix WD external hard drive not showing up/unrecognized/responding errorġ. If your external hard drive or storage devices are having this issue, relax and just follow to get your problem fixed right here now. Here below, you'll find 1 quick fix and 4 methods to fix WD external hard drive not working issue.

But it's still a tough issue for ordinary users when their external hard drive, USB or SD card etc devices suddenly become unrecognized, not working or responding in PC. Though it's no longer a new problem that external hard drive fails to work or suddenly fail to show up in PC. If you have any methods to fix my issue and make the WD external hard drive work again, please help me. I've saved quite a lot of important files inside the drive. I don't know what reasons have made the drive not responding, and neither I know any solutions. I've changed the USB port but it still not working.

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To make matters worse, the new My Book has a more expensive suggested retail price starting at $130 for 3TB all the way up to $300 for 8TB (the 3TB and 8TB capacities of the Seagate Backup Plus Hub can currently be had for just $100 and $230, respectively.) It's safe to say, however, that the street price of the My Book will likely be lower.' My 1TB WD external hard drive is not working on my Windows 10 PC and I can do nothing to the drive since it fails to show up in This PC. It's not the fastest, however, trailing behind the recently reviewed Seagate Backup Plus Hub by more than 10MBps. I tested the 8TB version of the drive and via USB 3.0 and it did well, with the sustained copy speed averaging some 170MBps (that's more than 50 percent faster than the My Passport). And like all desktop external hard drive, the My Book require an external power adapter to work. The My Book doesn't have extra USB ports to work as a USB hub, a cool feature first introduced by the Seagate Backup Plus Hub. This means it won't work with computers that only have a USB-C port, like the Macbook. Instead it uses the old Micro-USB 3.0 port and includes a foot-long connection cable. Notes: Longer bars mean better performance

Computer not reading my passport external hard drive