Hey everyone.
My problem is that my external HDD is no longer coming up in the "Computer" window (I have Windows 7).
It is a Simple Drive External HDD I bought last year. It worked fine up until today. I had a bunch of old files on it I used on an old computer and I wanted to wipe it. So I download some software called Active Kill Disk which I used to wipe and kill (erase all data from) the HDD. Now it no longer shows up in the "Computer" window.
I went into Device Manager and it shows up as Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 in the Disk Drives section. I also read somewhere that maybe I just need to partition and format the drive. So I started to do that, but the HDD doesn't show up in "Disc Management".
Now I am completely lost and I would really love to use my external HDD again. Any ideas or solutions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You,
Jeff K.
My problem is that my external HDD is no longer coming up in the "Computer" window (I have Windows 7).
It is a Simple Drive External HDD I bought last year. It worked fine up until today. I had a bunch of old files on it I used on an old computer and I wanted to wipe it. So I download some software called Active Kill Disk which I used to wipe and kill (erase all data from) the HDD. Now it no longer shows up in the "Computer" window.
I went into Device Manager and it shows up as Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 in the Disk Drives section. I also read somewhere that maybe I just need to partition and format the drive. So I started to do that, but the HDD doesn't show up in "Disc Management".
Now I am completely lost and I would really love to use my external HDD again. Any ideas or solutions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You,
Jeff K.