External Hard Drive Not Showing up or Detected in Windows 11/10

External Hard Drive Not Showing up or Detected in Windows 11/10.

Sometimes our PC fails or 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 The problem occurs mostly when the device driver is either corrupted or outdated.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 11/10/8/7 is resolved.

Issues addressed in this tutorial:
external hard drive not showing up
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external hard drive not showing up in disk management
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external hard drive not showing files and folders
external hard disk not detected and making noise
Seagate external hard drive not working and beeping
external hard drive not accessible
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Removable disk drives—like USB flash drives, SD cards, and external hard drives—should be easy to use with your computer. But in some cases, you may connect your drive to a Windows PC or another device with a USB port and find the external hard drive isn't showing up.

This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Huawei and Samsung.