In fact, it is not rare that computer users are bothered by WD hard drive not recognized in Windows 10 issue, which can be caused by various events like incompatible file system, invalid USB port, outdated driver, and so on. You can take measures described in the following text to enable your WD hard drive to show up properly in Windows 10/11 File Explorer. ▶ Method 1: Initialize WD hard drive in Disk Management This way applied to the situation that your WD hard drive shows as not initialized disk when you open Disk Management. Locate the WD hard drive that going to be initialized and right-click it.Ģ. Choose “Initialize Disk” and pick one partition system between MBR and GPT.ģ. Right-click the disk and choose “Create New Simple Volume”. Then, you can do what New Simple Volume Wizard prompts. »Initializing WD hard drive will lead to data loss. If you don’t care about the data on WD hard drive, you can apply this way. »It is possible that you are unable to initialize hard drive and receive errors like the device is not ready. ▶ Method 2: Assign drive letter to WD hard drive partition WD external hard drive not showing up in Windows 10/11 File Explorer could be the result of drive letter missing or conflict. If your hard drive is in such a case, you can assign drive letter to it or change its drive letter.ġ. Right-click the hard drive partition and choose “Change Drive Letter and Path…”ģ. In the pop-up window, click on “Add” to assign a drive letter to the hard drive partition or click “Change” to change the drive letter.Ĥ. ▶ Method 3: Format WD hard drive to a compatible file system Close Disk Management and access hard drive from Windows 10/11 File Explorer. You can employ this way if your WD hard drive was previously formatted with an unrecognized file system under windows or there are corrupted files on it. You are certain to format WD hard drive using Disk Management. However, this Windows built-in tool is with some limits. For instance, it is unable to format hard drive partition over 32GB in size to FAT32 file system. Therefore, it is recommended to apply the powerful disk formatting tool – AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard, which breaks the limit of 32GB in partition size and offers you more options about file system. It is compatible with Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7, XP, and Vista. To format WD hard drive in Windows Server, you can use AOMEI Partition Assistant Server. In the beginning, you can free download this great software. Then, do the step-by-step tutorial given below.ġ. Install and fire up AOMEI Partition Assistant. In the main interface, right-click the hard drive partition that needs formatting and choose “Format Partition”.Ģ. Choose a proper file system for WD hard drive (Here NTFS is selected).ģ. Confirm formatting operation and click “Apply” and "Proceed" to perform it. ▶ Methods 4: Update WD hard drive device driver PS: AOMEI Partition Assistant is not only compatible with Windows 10, but also with Windows 11/8.1/8/7, XP, and Vista. If your WD hard drive is even not showing up in Windows 10 or Windows 11 Disk Management, you could consider whether there is something wrong with the WD hard drive device driver. Press "Windows + R", input "devmgmt.msc", and hit "Enter" to open Device Manager.Ĭlick disk drives and check if there is a yellow exclamation mark with WD hard drive disk device. If it is, right-click WD hard drive, choose “Properties” and click Update Driver under Driver tab or click on “Uninstall”. Then, you can restart computer to see whether the WD external hard drive is recognized by Windows 10/11. WD hard drive not detected or working in Windows 11/10 might be caused by disabling USB interface in BIOS as well. In such a case, you can enter BIOS settings to enable USB device. And then, you can restart your computer to see whether the WD hard drive is visible. When the connection port is dead or damaged, you will not see WD hard drive in Windows 10 or 11. To check whether the USB port is OK, you can unplug WD hard drive and connect it to another USB port to see if it is able to be recognized by Win 10/11. Conclusionįind out the most possible events, causing WD hard drive not recognized in Windows 10/11, take responding measures based on a specific situation, and you’ll be able to fix this problem quickly and securely.Today, I shucked a WD Easystore 8TB unit.
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