Seagate 5TB External hard drive compatible?

Drath
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edited November 2023 in 2018 Archives
On my Acer Predator 300 laptop my 5TB seagate external hard drive does not appear as a drive under my computer on my desktop it showed as an I: drive. When I go to device manager or devices and printers it shows as Backup+ Desk. Is there any way I can get it to show again as an I: drive or at least something that I can download to and launch things from? I have over 4TB of steam games installed on it so any help would be appreciated.

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  • sri369
    sri369 ACE Posts: 2,804 Pathfinder
    Go to Computer Management. Import it from there. Windows 10 forces this when it detects a new hard disk with data already on it. I had to do this when I moved my HDD from my old laptop to this, and also with my 2 TB external hard disk.
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  • Drath
    Drath Member Posts: 6

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    sri369 said:
    Go to Computer Management. Import it from there. Windows 10 forces this when it detects a new hard disk with data already on it. I had to do this when I moved my HDD from my old laptop to this, and also with my 2 TB external hard disk.
    How do I go about importing it? I have computer management up Also that sounds like a poor thought process at least to me, perhaps it really is effective.
  • sri369
    sri369 ACE Posts: 2,804 Pathfinder
    edited July 2018
    Drath said:
    sri369 said:
    Go to Computer Management. Import it from there. Windows 10 forces this when it detects a new hard disk with data already on it. I had to do this when I moved my HDD from my old laptop to this, and also with my 2 TB external hard disk.
    How do I go about importing it? I have computer management up Also that sounds like a poor thought process at least to me, perhaps it really is effective.
    @Drath
    Ideally, it isn't! It is from a mobile perspective.

    When you move a dynamic disk from one computer to another one which does not support dynamic disk, such as all Windows home editions, and then the dynamic disk created on previous computer will be flagged as a foreign disk in Disk Manager.


    Links:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/troubleshooting-disk-management
    https://www.disk-partition.com/dynamic-disk/foreign-dynamic-disk.html
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  • Drath
    Drath Member Posts: 6

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    sri369 said:
    @Drath
    Ideally, it isn't! It is from a mobile perspective.

    When you move a dynamic disk from one computer to another one which does not support dynamic disk, such as all Windows home editions, and then the dynamic disk created on previous computer will be flagged as a foreign disk in Disk Manager.


    Links:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/troubleshooting-disk-management
    https://www.disk-partition.com/dynamic-disk/foreign-dynamic-disk.html
    It doesn't show as a foreign disk in my computer management instead it says it's formatted as a basic disc but says the file system is RAW says active, healthy, primary partition, if I try to format it I get this. https://gyazo.com/939dbf9ed03f07bfc5d53bd87fe665c0 
    And in the actual computer management it looks like this. https://gyazo.com/73b330161799e40d2e67237fe2911464
  • sri369
    sri369 ACE Posts: 2,804 Pathfinder
    edited July 2018
    Drath said:
    It doesn't show as a foreign disk in my computer management instead it says it's formatted as a basic disc but says the file system is RAW says active, healthy, primary partition, if I try to format it I get this. https://gyazo.com/939dbf9ed03f07bfc5d53bd87fe665c0 
    And in the actual computer management it looks like this. https://gyazo.com/73b330161799e40d2e67237fe2911464
    Next time, try to drag and drop the images directly here, than redirect to some external site. All sites are not safe to open from all locations.
    From what I see it seems like your disk is not formatted, but from you said that doesn't seem like the case. Did you try hooking up to another computer and see if that works. It seems to me like some volume data is corrupt. Try the link below and see if that helps.
    https://www.easeus.com/resource/convert-raw-ntfs.htm

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  • Drath
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    sri369 said:
    From what I see it seems like your disk is not formatted, but from you said that doesn't seem like the case. Did you try hooking up to another computer and see if that works. It seems to me like some volume data is corrupt. Try the link below and see if that helps.
    https://www.easeus.com/resource/convert-raw-ntfs.htm

    I do not have another computer available to hook it up too as well as I tried to format it as NTFS and windows can not complete the formatting or formatting not completed properly.
  • sri369
    sri369 ACE Posts: 2,804 Pathfinder
    Drath said:
    sri369 said:
    From what I see it seems like your disk is not formatted, but from you said that doesn't seem like the case. Did you try hooking up to another computer and see if that works. It seems to me like some volume data is corrupt. Try the link below and see if that helps.
    https://www.easeus.com/resource/convert-raw-ntfs.htm

    I do not have another computer available to hook it up too as well as I tried to format it as NTFS and windows can not complete the formatting or formatting not completed properly.
    If you aren't bothered about the data on it (given that you are trying to format), partition it before formatting into chunks of 2 TB or less.
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  • Yvette222
    Yvette222 Member Posts: 7

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    I don't suggest you format it if you care about the data. If you connected it via USB, you can try connecting it internally via SATA, sometimes, this method works.
    If the above method fails to work, try checking whether there are file system errors. Some freeware can help you in this regard, such as minitool partition wizard or easeus partition master.

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