1. Seagate Usb Drive Not Showing Up
2. Seagate Hard Drive Not Showing Up Pc

If you are facing this odd issue, here are some things you can try and fix external USB drive not showing up in File Explorer in Windows10. Method 1: Show Empty Drives in File Explorer Depending on your system configuration, File Explorer might not show the external USB drive if it is completely empty. The Seagate Wireless Device will not mount on USB if the Wi-Fi mode is active. Be sure to press the power button and wait for the blue Wi-Fi light to turn off before plugging the drive in for use in USB mode. The drive may take up to 40 seconds to mount on USB after running in Wi-Fi mode.

Your Seagate USB external hard drive is not working, not responding, or fails to detect by Windows. It is urgent to fix a not working Seagate external hard drive, at the same time, to recover critical data from it. Here in this article, we provide Seagate users with workable troubleshooting guide and data recovery solution - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard.

Seagate external hard drive not working, is it showing up?

Seagate is a big brand of hard drive storage which is favored by worldwide customers. Many people tend to use a Seagate external hard drive of 500GB, 1TB, 2TB, for example, as a backup drive. Every big brand has its issues after a long term use, particularly with frequently improper use, such as incompatible bundled software with a newer operating system, a connection on multiple computers, unsafe ejection, physical vibration, etc. As a consequence, the Seagate external hard drive is not working anymore.

When a hard drive, or an external one, is not working, it means that you cannot use it to save new data, or even cannot access the present data, either. Therefore, to fix a not working Seagate external hard drive without losing data, you must know very clearly how to examine problems, fix different-level damage, and in what circumstance you're going to suffer data loss.

Basic troubleshooting

Let's address issue step by step, from basic checking to advanced troubleshooting. First, when the connected Seagate drive is not detected or not showing up in Windows Explorer, try these basic troubleshooting steps as below.

• Change a USB port on your computer
• Change a different data cable if possible.
• Is there the other computer nearby? Connect the drive to the other computer.
• Verify the Seagate external hard drive light is blinking or not. No light means the power adapter is not connected to power.
• Change a power outlet if no light is on, or perhaps you need to plug the power adapter directly to the wall outlet.

After some basic troubleshooting, if the hard drive shows up again, you don't need to worry much about losing data. But always remember to back up hard drive data before it's too late, EaseUS Todo Backup Free allows for an automatic backup scheme on schedule.

If no success, you must have some further troubleshooting to make the Seagate external hard drive appear in Windows and work as normal. This time, go to Windows Disk Management, check the hard drive's status there.

• Step 1: Press Windows + R keys, type compmgmt.msc in Run and hit Enter.
• Step 2: In Computer Management, click Disk Management on the left, and view the disk information that represents your Seagate external hard drive.

If you're lucky enough to see the disk showing there, even displaying as strange characters including [1]'Unallocated', [2]'RAW', [3]'Disk unknown, not initialized', take it easy. Seagate external hard drive in these circumstances is neither accessible nor opening, but you can try to recover data with the help of EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard. The linked pages are with corresponding solutions, and they are 100% applicable to the Seagate external hard drive as well.

Advanced troubleshooting

What if there is no sign of Seagate external hard drive in Disk Management? In this case, you need to move on to explore the storage device in Device Manager.

• Step 1: In the same way to open Computer Management, and this time click Device Manager on the left.
• Step 2: Locate the Seagate external hard drive's name under the Disk drives, check and view its status.
• Step 3: If the drive was not detected under Disk drives, try to look for any entries called unknown device, other device or mass storage device with a yellow exclamation icon.
• Step 4: Right-click on the drive and choose Properties.
• Step 5: You may see an error code 10, error code 28 or error code 43 under the General tab.
• Step 6: Return to the Device Manager, in the right place, right-click on the drive with the issue and select Uninstall > Search automatically for updated driver software.
• Step 7: Shut down your computer and disconnect the Seagate external hard drive. Wait for a while, reboot the computer, plug the drive into a different port again, and you should see that Windows is installing the device drivers.

How to recover data from not working Seagate external hard drive

After fixing the Seagate external hard drive which fails to respond or react, you shall now check whether you can access your data in the drive or not. Whenever you wish to recover data from a not working Seagate external hard drive, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is worth your try. It's dependable, powerful yet easy-to-use hard drive data recovery software that owns a high reputation in the world.

It comes handy when you cannot open the Seagate external hard drive that shows as unallocated, RAW or unknown. Since Windows Disk Management can recognize the drive, so can EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard. Just download the software and run it on your Windows/Mac computer, let it scan the hard drive and find the inaccessible data.

Moreover, if you've tried to format the RAW external hard drive to NTFS/FAT32, it's still working to recover data from a formatted hard drive partition. Now, it's your turn to run the software for a full Seagate hard drive data recovery.

By going through three short stages, you can easily find lost data on a Seagate external hard drive.

Step 1. Under the 'External Devices', you should see the Seagate external hard drive showing up after it's correctly connected to your computer. Select the drive and click the Scan button.

Step 2. Soon, the software will find more and more data and display the data in the scan results.

Step 3. You can use the Filter feature to quickly locate some specific file types in the results. Select the target files and click the Recover button.

Seagate external hard drive is famous and having good reputation in computer usage class. But sometimes this class also encounters the problem of Seagate external hard drive deduction. What exactly happening in this scenario is that you are unable to find your Seagate hard drive, and you will be worrying about your data loss problems. In this article, we are going to fix Seagate external hard drive not detected problem step by step.

Seagate Usb Drive Not Showing Up

Why Seagate External Hard Drive Not Showing Up?

The answer to this question is hidden under the numerous reasons that allow your Seagate external hard drive to not show up. Following are the reasons that are responsible for this act of not recognizing your drive.

1. USB port not working properly. It might be possible that your personal computer USB port is not working properly and you are unaware of this thing. It is the major reason for not recognizing your Seagate external hard drive.

2. Outdated hard drive drivers. Again, another reason will be your outdated hard drivers that make it impossible for your computer to find out Seagate external hard drive.

3. Attack of Virus. Yes, it might be possible your system is encountering any kind bug issue. As a result of these bugs, you are unable to work on your system smoothly and accurately.

4. Failure of Hard Drive. Physical or logical hard disk failure may occur in the course of normal operation, or due to an external factor such as exposure to fire or water or high magnetic fields, or other tough conditions.

These are the common reasons that make it possible Seagate external hard drive to not showing up. Of course, there are many more unpredictable causes, but you can try following solutions anyway.

Fix Seagate External Hard Drive Not Showing Up without Losing Data

We have analyzed the possible causes of Seagate external hard drive not showing error above. Accordingly, we can troubleshoot the issue with several DIY tricks:

• Try another USB port and cable, or use another PC.
• Update driver in Device Manager > Disk drives.
• Scan your entire computer with anti-virus software.
• If you find any indication of physical damage, then you’d better change to a new external hard drive since it is not safe anymore.

If the problem is fully or partially fixed but some files missing, then you can use a data recovery software to get the files back, which is able to find hidden and deleted photos, videos, documents and more files from external hard drive.

If there is no damage on your Seagate external hard drive but the problem persists, then you can try following solutions to get it fixed.
Solution 1. Assign or Change Drive Letter in Windows 10

If you get a “Please insert a disk into XX” alert when trying to open Seagate external hard drive in File Explorer, then it is possible that there is a drive letter conflict.

Seagate Hard Drive Not Showing Up Pc

You need to assign a new letter to it or change the drive letter to an unused one.

• Step 1. Press Windows key + X, click Disk Management.
• Step 2. Select the partition of your external hard drive, then right-click and select Change Drive Letter and Paths…
• Step 3. Click Change, then assign a never-used driver letter.
• Step 4. Restart your computer and see if the external hard drive is detected.

The outcome will be very positive and you will find your Seagate external hard drive through My Computers. If your Seagate external hard drive doesn’t appear in Disk Management, please skip to Solution 3.

Solution 2. Initialization of Seagate External Hard drive

Sometimes what is happening to your derive is the problem of initialization. In this situation, you have to initialize your derive first in order to make it work properly.

What you have to do is to right-click the drive and choose to initialize disk option. Now you have to follow appearing prompt to initialize the hard disk.
One important thing that needs to tell you here is that this type of operation will erase your all data in the hard drive. So be careful about this thing when you choose this method.

Solution 3. Format and Repartition Seagate External Hard drive

You can also choose this method and format your Seagate external hard drive. Formatting of Seagate external hard drive is possible through drive management and third-party software. You can find a step-by-step guide in regard to how to format and repartition hard drive in Disk Management.

• Step 1. Click Windows 10 Start menu, and type “CMD”.
• Step 2. From the matched result, right-click Command Prompt and choose Run as administrator.
• Step 3. In the command prompt window, type the following commands one by one and hit Enter after each.

  diskpart
  list disk
  select disk # (replace # with the letter of the external hard drive)
  clean

  Note: This step will clean the disk make it appear in Disk management, but it will format the selected disk. Please make sure you select the right disk, otherwise you may need to recover data from formatted hard disk.

• Step 4. Enter Disk Management by pressing Windows key + X at the same time.
• Step 5. Right-click the unallocated partition and choose New Simple Volume.
  
• Step 6. Follow the setup wizard to complete the partition process.

Now Seagate external hard drive not recognized problem should be fixed. You can not only reclaim the huge disk space, but also get back the data in it. Feel free to share your cases with us and find effective solutions.