Windows 7 not detecting external hard drive but Ubuntu is detecting. Why?
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Go to Disk Management>Tools>Refresh Disk, if this does not detect anything it sounds like the drive is formatted in a format unsupported by Windows.
XFS disk formatting is not supported in Windows but is in Ubuntu.
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unlimit almost 2 years
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.
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Serge over 11 yearswhat you mean it does not detect it? did you look into
Disk Manager? -
pneumatics over 11 yearsRight click on My Computer, go to disk management and tell us what the format of the disk is, when connected to windows.
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unlimit over 11 yearsDisk management just hangs with the status "Loading disk configuration information..." when the drive is connected. It finally came up. Says "RAW".
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unlimit over 11 yearsWindows used to detect it till yesterday. My main question is why Windows can't but linux can?
