Tuesday, November 17, 2015

External Hard Drive not Recognized by Windows 7

So I'm trying to get an external hard drive working. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate. It's a WD Black 2.5 inch 750 GB drive inside a Sabrent external HD case. The drive is recognized by the BIOS and by Device Manager, but is not viewable from My Computer.


Obviously, the issue is that there isn't a drive letter assigned. I went into Computer Management and tried to assign a letter, but the option to do so is greyed out.


If possible, I would like to view and hopefully recover the 50GB of data currently on the drive instead of having to just wipe it out.


Any ideas?


[EDIT] I figured out a way to get the information off the drive, but I still can't make my Windows computer recognize it.

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