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I have a 500 GB Toshiba external hard drive. Since yesterday Windows 7 stopped detecting it, however I do see it listed on the "Safely remove hardware and eject media" icon on the taskbar. Then I tried the same external hard drive on my Ubuntu and it detected it just fine. Ubuntu and Windows 7 are on the same laptop. I have dual boot.
Can someone tell me why is it happening? Am I missing a driver in Windows 7?
Additional info:
- This drive has worked perfectly fine in the past.
- I did not format this drive ever.
- It just stopped working yesterday in windows.
what you mean it does not detect it? did you look into
Disk Manager
? – Serge – 2012-10-07T16:27:36.353Right click on My Computer, go to disk management and tell us what the format of the disk is, when connected to windows. – pneumatics – 2012-10-07T17:54:15.627
Disk management just hangs with the status "Loading disk configuration information..." when the drive is connected. It finally came up. Says "RAW". – unlimit – 2012-10-08T00:28:45.363