Seagate HDD not being recognized by my computer Please Help!

[JonWatso]

I gotta Seagate USB 2.0 500 GB Expansion drive. Its been working just fine on my computer up until a couple days ago. For some reason the latest windows 7 update must have messed up the formatting of it, now its not being recognized on my laptop at all. Shows up as a local disk...very frustrating. I've tried almost everything I could think of. I've tried assigning a partition letter in disk management , uninstalling the software, trying it on different computers...nothing. I don't wanna result in having to reformat it and lose what I got. Could somebody please help me???

 

[scout_03]

did you try the restore point previous to that update .

 

[JonWatso]

yes

 

[scout_03]

could you test the drive in another system .

 

[JonWatso]

u mean like XP or Windows 8?

 

[scout_03]

yes to see how they will detect it .

 

[JonWatso]

Well unfortunately I don't have another system to test it on

 

[scout_03]

see if a friend or a good neibhourg could help you for this test .

 

[JonWatso]

any other solutions you can give me?

 

[scout_03]

then this link to see if the have something that could resolve the issue http://www.seagate.com/support/external-hard-drives/portable-hard-drives/expansion-portable/