I have an external hard drive that works on the original Windows 7 OS and hard drive where I added it. May be permissions issue? I think I had not shared it but share it now. I installed a second internal hard drive on the same PC with fresh install of Windows 7 but it either does not see the external drive or wants me to initialize it. I tried the external on another PC and it wants to initialize as well.
So I go back to the original windows drive and it finds the external drive. I have swapped USB ports and cables to no avail. The drive is a back up of another external drive.
So I go back to the original windows drive and it finds the external drive. I have swapped USB ports and cables to no avail. The drive is a back up of another external drive.