External hard drive not detected or recognised

[firenice03]

Just a couple thoughts...

Plug in the drive then launch GParted after its launched and has located drives, in the upper right is a drop down (typically defaults to internal /dev/sda) can you drop this to the external? If so, does it list the disk possibly as all unallocated?

I ask as you mention it spins up in Windows but nothing shows - possibly this disk has not been used/configure and doesn't have a partition yet??? or not active of sorts?? Might just need to create a partition and format...


Or if you find yourself in WINDOWS - from a command prompt try..

Code:

diskpart

once it comes up to DISKPART> type:

Code:

list disk

This should list the disks attached (0 should be internal) and if the disk is active and size..

Again just a thought