Windows 10: Seagate external hard drive not showing in windows explorer

My Seagate external hard drive is not showing up in Window Explorer. My Laptop does detect it and it shows up in Device Manager however, it won't show up in Window Explorer.

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Cannot find (Seagate) external hard drive in File Explorer.

Hi,

Thank you for updating us on the issue.

To understand the issue better, please provide us more information.

1. I would recommend you to check in Disk management, if the (Seagate) external hard drive is detecting in Disk management. Follow the below steps:

a. Press Windows Key + R and type diskmgmt.msc and hit
Enter.

b. Check if the system is detecting (Seagate) external hard drive and let us know.

2. What exactly happen when you try to access on the hard drive? Do you receive any error message/error code?

Awaiting your response for further assistance.

 

Seagate External Drive not showing in Windows Explorer - Windows 10

Hello,

After reading a few other related posts here, I'm hoping for a bit of additional help. My Windows 10 PC doesn't show my Seagate external hard drive in Windows Explorer, however the Seagate light turns on, I can feel the internal drive circulating, and my PC makes the sound of recognizing something being plugged into the USB port. It shows in Windows Settings under Other Devices as a Portable Drive connected to USB 3.0 and when I open Device Manager>Disk Drives, the Seagate drive is identified and under Properties it says the Seagate Portable SCSI Disk Device is working properly.

When I open Disk Management, it shows Disk 0, partition 1, Disk 0, partition 4, Disk 1, partition 1, Disk 1, partition 2, and Windows C:

All are showing healthy under Status.

I've tried the initial steps of plugging into the other USB port, but as soon as I do, the light on the external hard drive turns on, so I know the PC 'knows' the external drive is there....but I can't see it in Explorer to get access to its contents.

Any ideas you can offer would be appreciated!

 

Seagate external hard drive not showing in windows explorer

So I recently got a new laptop

I have a Seagate external hard drive that I used to use on my other computer, however that computer has been broken for 1 year (maybe more). So I haven't used the hard drive in a while, and it hasn't been tested since then.

When I plug it into this new laptop, the expansion lights up to let me know that it's on, and when I go to devices and printers on the computer it does show up as "expansion desk". But it isn't visible in the windows explorer, so I can't access any of my files or save anything new to the hard drive.

It's obviously working as the light is coming on and the laptop is recognising that it's plugged in, I just can't figure out how to access it.

The laptop is HP Omen I5-7300HQ, Windows 10

Expansion is Seagate SRD00F2 4TB

Any help would be much appreciated!