Stupidly Disabled Drive, Cannot Enable it

[PatchWorkHoax]

I have been having troubles with my drive with it not showing up, I tried disabling (Thinking I could re enable) But it has gone from disk manager and will not appear. (I'm new to this stuff and need a answer that I would understand) Also when I get this working does anyone know how to reformat it?:??


(Im using a 2TB Seagate Expansion Drive)

 

[RealBeast]

Attach it to your computer, open an elevated command prompt box (right click run as admin), type the word diskpart and hit return, then type list disk and hit return again.

That should show a list of all attached drives internal and external.

*Carefully* select the drive number that is your 2TB Seagate Expansion Drive and type select disk n (where n is the number for the Seagate)

That will shift the focus to that drive and then you can type clean and hit return. Now it should show up in disk management and you can initialize it as an MBR drive and then format in NTFS. If there are important files on it you *may* be able to recover some with a lot of work, although it is by no means guaranteed (so hopefully you have a backup of the data).

HERE is some more detail on other diskpart commands and the syntax.

If diskpart fails to recognize it there is a different more labor intensive task ahead.

 

[PatchWorkHoax]

Attach it to your computer, open an elevated command prompt box (right click run as admin), type the word diskpart and hit return, then type list disk and hit return again.

That should show a list of all attached drives internal and external.

*Carefully* select the drive number that is your 2TB Seagate Expansion Drive and type select disk n (where n is the number for the Seagate)

That will shift the focus to that drive and then you can type clean and hit return. Now it should show up in disk management and you can initialize it as an MBR drive and then format in NTFS. If there are important files on it you *may* be able to recover some with a lot of work, although it is by no means guaranteed (so hopefully you have a backup of the data).

HERE is some more detail on other diskpart commands and the syntax.

If diskpart fails to recognize it there is a different more labor intensive task ahead.

See after I disabled It just wont show up, not even in disk part thing, The light doesnt even turn on, Maybe I should try to get an rma? Even though I have lots of data on this that I will need to re download

 

[RealBeast]

Yes, RMA if you can if the drive light does not even come on.

 

[PatchWorkHoax]

Yes, RMA if you can if the drive light does not even come on.

Thanks for your help, but I have no idea how to rma something on amazon? Mind giving me a link to a guide or such

 

[mjslakeridge]

Try it on a different USB port on your computer, and also on a different computer. If it still doesn't show up, then it has most likely failed.

 

[RealBeast]

Yes, RMA if you can if the drive light does not even come on.

Thanks for your help, but I have no idea how to rma something on amazon? Mind giving me a link to a guide or such

You either return it to Amazon if within about 30 days or RMA to the manufacturer if still under warranty -- that is available on their specific mnf web site.