silly external HD not recognized in win 8

[pegasis]

I have an external HD attached to my windows 8.1 desktop.

Paragon drive copy sees it as online, but windows does not recognize it

How can I fix this?????

 

[oynaz]

compmgnt.msc - storage - disk management

check it in here.

 

[Ketchup]

As referred to above, it would be a good idea to go to Cmputer Management\Disk Management from Administrative Tools and see if your drive is listed. If it is, right-click the drive and assign it a Drive Letter.

 

[pegasis]

drive is listed there, but does not show up under mu computer
and files on the drives are not seen/recognized

 

[Ketchup]

Right-click the drive and give it a letter.

 

[pegasis]

Such innately stupid stuff that windows can't seem to do on its own.

Always amazes me how much rubbish windows is!!!!!

that tip worked perfectly

 

[Ketchup]

Such innately stupid stuff that windows can't seem to do on its own.

Always amazes me how much rubbish windows is!!!!!

that tip worked perfectly

It is interesting. The Windows Server OS's would do this. Not sure why 8.1 is in your case. I say "in your case" because if this was the case for everyone a lot of users would be screaming about it, but I have only seen a few. Someone suggested an update on patch Tuesday late last year caused this issue for them.

 

[pegasis]

The Ext HD now recognizes, but after a few hours it disappears from windows?

you have to shut it off and turn the ext HD back on for windows to recognize the ext HD again??

windows is possessed

what is causing this, and how do i fix it????

 

[Bubbaleone]

I believe what's happening is that when there's been no activity for a time, on the USB port the device is plugged into, and then that port gets selectively suspended, Windows loses the connection to the external drive. Which explains why you have to reboot the device in order for disk management to see it again. Try this: Open "Power Options" in Control Panel, click "Change plan settings", click "Change advanced power settings", scroll down to "USB settings" and click both + signs, change "USB selective suspend setting" to disabled. Close out the dialog boxes and restart the PC. Your external drive shouldn't get (selectively) disconnected now.

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[pegasis]

It is already disabled, so i am confused as to why the external HD is going off?

very strange

 

[Charlie98]

What kind of USB drive is it? I had problems with one of my Seagate portable USB drives falling asleep that the other 2 don't have.