Problem: previously working external HD no longer accessible. Shows as not initialized and no drive letter in Disk Management. Right clicking on drive within Disk Management does NOT bring up an option for assigning a drive letter. Instead a small box shows only four items available: Initialize Disk (grayed out), Offline, Properties, Help. Right clicking on the black single partition area brings up seven options (the first five are grayed out): New Simple Volume, New Spanned Volume, New Striped Volume, New Mirrored Volume, New Raid-5 Volume, Properties, Help.
Using CMD with administrator privileges so as to use the diskpart process does not work. Neither "list disk" nor "list volume" shows the plugged-in disk, only shows the SSD integral boot disk. Third party software does show the drive, but apparently offers only a VERY long "repair" process which I'm not quite ready to perform plus I'd need to purchase another high capacity HD to transfer the data onto etc.
Can anyone help? Thanks
Operating System Name: Windows Vista
Licensed To User: rich
Operating System Platform: NT/2000/XP/Vista
Operating System Major Version: 6
Operating System Minor Version: 1
Operating System Build Number: 7601
Service Pack Description: Service Pack 1
Service Pack Major Version: 0
Service Pack Minor Version: 0
Product Edition: Windows 7 Professional
Windows Directory: C:\Windows
Windows System Directory: C:\Windows\system32
Shared Windows Directory: C:\Windows
Using CMD with administrator privileges so as to use the diskpart process does not work. Neither "list disk" nor "list volume" shows the plugged-in disk, only shows the SSD integral boot disk. Third party software does show the drive, but apparently offers only a VERY long "repair" process which I'm not quite ready to perform plus I'd need to purchase another high capacity HD to transfer the data onto etc.
Can anyone help? Thanks
Operating System Name: Windows Vista
Licensed To User: rich
Operating System Platform: NT/2000/XP/Vista
Operating System Major Version: 6
Operating System Minor Version: 1
Operating System Build Number: 7601
Service Pack Description: Service Pack 1
Service Pack Major Version: 0
Service Pack Minor Version: 0
Product Edition: Windows 7 Professional
Windows Directory: C:\Windows
Windows System Directory: C:\Windows\system32
Shared Windows Directory: C:\Windows