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Seagate Expansion USB HDD shows in device manager but not in windows explorer

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Right click the USB HDD volume and assign it a drive letter.

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I found an old usb hdd that was once plugged into a VU satellite receiver. I plugged it into my PC and it didn't show up in file explorer.

I used cmd line diskpart to format it and now I can see it in device manager, and devices and printers as "Expansion" but not in windows as a drive that I can use to copy files to.

I have reformatted it in disk management and still I can't use it as a storage drive. Can anyone help?

 

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1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Right click the USB HDD volume and assign it a drive letter.

AHA! Thanks !!

 

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