Seagate External Hard Drive Not Showing Up In Windows 10? Let’s Go Step-by-Step!Įvery step is good enough to solve this problem, so don't miss any of them! Step 1. These include outdated drivers, virus attack, etc. Hard drive failure may occur due to external factors like high magnetic fields, physical damage, water ingress, etc. It is the most common situation for a USB port to not work properly. If your Seagate external hard drive is not showing up in Windows 10, 8 or 7, the problem may be as simple as a USB port. If that isnt' able to get the data back (you'll need another drive to recover to as well), then your next option would be to go to the vendor website and get their disk utility to check the drives health. I would try the recovery (RECUVA) or and hope for the best. If you want to try recovery, don't initialize the disk yet though - any changes to it at this point will guarantee that the previous data on it are gone for good. There are a couple of paid ones I can recommend too, but they're roughly $50 and whether you go the free or paid route, it is a long process and no guarantee to work. RECUVA might be able to get the job done and it's free. It might just be really bad timing, but it's possible your disk has been failing (bad sectors that have gone undetected), or even dumber luck that it failed in the perfect storm.Īt this point, I believe your only option for recovering anything off the disk would be to use a file recovery tool. I can't imagine that the install would have anything to do with this, especially since there is no abrupt stop for file explorer in the installer, but likely due to the system hanging from the file copy and the installer freezing in the process and then being abruptly stopped. Being as it is showing as not initialized and needing to be, that usually means the file system is completely lost.
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