How to reformat a usb drive on pc not vivisible

How to reformat a usb drive on pc not vivisible portable#

tried it on my girls computer and them same, not discovered. plugged into my home coputer and the drive powered up but was not recognized. i put some data on it to take home from work. I didnt have enough time for the program to finish a cleanup pass so i cancelled it. i have just got into using hex editors to clean up my hard drives.

My issue Seagate, 1.5TB, USB3, external phantom drive. Sminlal's answer is the best but ill just expand on it a bit as i just used his answer to solve my same issue. Thanks for the info but the drive does not show at disk management.thus, no letter is assigned to the drive. Check your drive documentation to see what it says about power requirements.

How to reformat a usb drive on pc not vivisible portable#

Sometimes even the portable 2.5' drives need external power, or they have a switch to select USB or external power. 'Portable' 2.5-inch external hard drives can usually be powered by the USB connection itself, but 'Desktop' 3.5-inch external drives can't - they need to be plugged into a wall outlet using a power transformer. If the drive doesn't show up in the lower part of the Disk Management pane then you've got some sort of hardware issue - double-check that the drive is properly connected and that it's plugged into a power outlet. Once this has been done the drive will be assigned a drive letter and it will appear in the top part of the Disk Management pane as well as in Explorer. Right-click on the new disk to create a volume and format it. Look at the BOTTOM portion of the middle pane in Disk Management - you may have to scroll down to see the disks. Use 'Start -> right-click 'Computer' -> click 'Disk Management' in the left pane.