I went to My Computer on my Windows Machine and my hard drive is not showing there. I have a Maxtor 80GB Firewire external hard drive.
So I then went to Disk Management in Computer Management and partitioned the hard drive and mounted it; however, every time I tried formatting it Windows said that it could not format.
I think I have now unpartitioned it and undone everything and now when I plug in my external hard drive it loads up at the bottom of the taskbar where I can select to safely remove hardware, however, it is still not showing in My Computer and it's not even in Computer Management any longer!
How come my hard drive is not recognized? and what can I do to get it to work properly?
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0I have a similar issue. My hard disk (Maxtor Home basic) is connected to UBUNTU 9.0, while using data from the hard disk abruptly the hard disk USB is unplugged by a kid. Now when I connect it to the computer again it is not working. But it is showing in device manager -> disk drives. However, I am not able to see it in My Computer. I tried to connect the hard disk in Windows XP, Windows 7, and Unbuntu 9.0. However, it never shows. The hard disk light is glowing, which shows that the hard disk is working. The hard-disk is an externally powered hard drive, Maxtor-home basic, 1 TB. — ant_jar