this article worked for me, I fixed the issue with my external drive. Never use those programs that search for new drivers for your hardware , it is an advice i give to you all . I have gone round and round with the Toshiba company trying to get answers and I have done the same with the NTI company. In fact, the tech at NTI was very snarky with me about this.

I have a tiny little Sony flash drive 8 GB and you’re instructions are the only one’s that worked. Everyone else kept saying the same thing that wasn’t working. By following this document, now my Seagate external hard-drive is detected and now I am able to access. My Seagate Slim HDD is being recognized by diskmgmt with "Not Initialized" under Disk 1.

It also doesn’t have the option to change drive letter and paths and/ornew simple volume upon right click. The only options that are showing when rigjt clicking are initialize disk, offline, properties, help. thanks for saving my life, my usb drive packed with 3 months of college work on it & i’ve rescued it & now learnt to copy it & back it up. Worked perfect in getting a HDD recognized as external data storage (USB-SATA adapter).

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It doesn’t matter which of the three USB ports I use the device is not recognized as it should be according to your instructions regarding disc management. The older devices do show up in disk management. Any of my older flash drives or Seagate portable HD are recognized and connect to the computer. Hi there the fix of assigning a letter to the drive in the disk management area worked.

• It may be that your cable has become damaged and is causing the problems.
• If you’re using a USB external hard drive, try switching out the USB cable for a different one that you know works without any issues.
• The corrupted external hard drive file system will now be rebuilt and you should be able to access your external hard drive once more.

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She tried to tell me that there is a problem with the drive itself but that isn’t true. I sent her AND Toshiba a screenshot of the drive in Windows 10 showing that the drive is functioning just fine. I even called Microsoft yesterday and was told by a ‘tech’ in India that he needed to look at my computer remotely. He then told me I need to buy a port adapter for my brand new computer.

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Point 4 really helped, it comes out that drive’s memory wasn’t allocated and had no letter assigned. To reformat a partition in the Disk Management utility, right-click it and select Format. If the drive appears partitioned, but you still can’t access it, it’s probably partitioned with a different file system. Something later in the alphabet, like G orJ, is standard for removable .dll drives and will work fine.