External Hard Drive not being recognized by Asus

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Techques

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I am trying to transfer an external Seagate hard drive to an Asus laptop. It's not being recognized, and there is no option to change the drive or path. It's grayed out. I can see the usb Seagate under device manager under disk drives so it is not dead. I don't want to do convert to disk management, because I don't know enough about that. Thanks
 
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Hellfire13
is it only showing lost data???...are u using full version of m3???
it shd be able to recover everything if the files are not corrupted beyond recovery...
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I don't know how to paste a screen shot, but it just says the Seagate hard drive that I have. When I right click it, it says update driver software, uninstall, scan for hardware changes, and properties.
 
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does it show uninitialised/raw???

for screenshot, u need to use "print screen" key and then copy it to clipboard or ms paint...then upload it to sum image hosting site like imgur.com and paste the link here...
it wud be helpful if u can do tht...

also wat kind of data r u tryng to transfer??? important or expendable???
 
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u r checking at the wrong place...these options are from device manager...
u need to go to disk management...right click on computer and select manage and then disk management....
or simply type disk management in start menu...
 
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I checked there, but it doesn't allow me to change the path. It only says convert to disk management.
 
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Then my computer must not be able to read it.
 
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It says convert to disk management. I don't want to mess up my computer.
 
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ok i can see it now...previously dns was not resolving the site...lol...

anywayss........

first of all...ur hdd is not dead(else it wont be reflecting in disk management)...and there is no virus...
ur mbr has been converted to gpt as u can see in disk management...
and there is no "convert to disk management"...its "convert to dynamic disk"...u have been misquoting all along...donno why...
ok...so...heres how its going to work...
A disk on a computer is usually partitioned in either MBR or GPT (two different partition table). Those partitions are then formatted with a file system, such as FAT, EXT2 and NTFS....

over here u cant see it as it is gpt...which u need to convert to ntfs...
there are many ways to do tht...but a relatively easier way is through 3rd party software...
download and install Mini Tool Partition Wizard...its one of the best softwares out there...check the instruction page and u will be able to convert to ntfs easily...

keep us posted...
 
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Hi Techques,

Your question is confusing; can you please answer some of my questions so that I can help you out.

If your hard drive is appearing in the device manager and showing update drive software issue, then why you don’t update the driver?

Have you tried check disk command to detect the issue with the hard drive?

[chkdsk H (drive name): /F (type f to fix error)]

If you haven’t tried the above remedies, then you should go through them and see if your drive starts working properly.
 
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Thanks, I will try your solution later. I was quoting it wrong, because in my first post I was talking about what it said when I was in device manager. When I talked to Asus in their chat I said dynamic, and the person told me it was dead.
 
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