I have a Lenovo with Windows 8 and my computer will recognize the drive but always says that it's empty and won't recognize any of my disks. Help?
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I could not get this USB drive to be recognized by my Surface tablet. There was no sign the external drive was functioning. I wish you luck with this. I scrapped the one I bought.
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I'm not an IT person but it sounds like something maybe wrong with the drive. I have an HP with Windows 8 and I have been able to view whatever is on the CD I've put in.
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I have this same problem... Is it because we are running on Windows 8? ..... Product description does not say it is compatible with Windows 8
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Then drive works with windows 8. The software that comes with it doesn't work with anything..
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I wish I could answer this one for you. It sound to me like your computer isn't recognizing the it as a disk and for some reason cannot open it. It could also be corrupt or broken. my advice is to To contact the company would you bought it through amazon and see if they can give you some advice.
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Yes, It's the first thing I did. Lenovo has added windows 7 drivers on their website. I removed the factory hard drive and replaced it with a 7200 rpm western digital black. The only issues I have is that the device manager shows 2 unknown usb devices but I can't seem to find any non or under functioning features/components. All in all I'm very pleased, especially with the price as compared to similarly equipped other brands.
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windows 7 should automatically recognize it. if it doesn't then the usb port might need to be enabled or is not working properly
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I do not have an answer to your problem, but with both seagate and WD drives I just attached the drive enclosure and the hard drives were recognized. I am using Win7 64
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Yep. After using it initially, I couldn't get windows to see it any more so took it apart. The drive is a Toshiba, which gets great ratings on drives. The problem with the errors could be a windows USB3 driver. Still not sure. Might re-assemble it to see if anything has changed.
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I have Windows 7 and it appears it would work if the actual disc drive worked. My laptop did recognize the device, the drive itself was defective.
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I may be mistaken, but windows will either not allow or not recognize partitions on a thumb drive. There may be 3rd party software to trick it, or circumvent this.If I am mistaken please do let me know.
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Sorr y my first answer was not complete. You can down load software for wd and seagate drives that will recognize and format them.
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Mmm ,,, What install/set Bios?? ... I put mine in and the system recognized it as drive g: and Done. Could be a bad drive as Andre says ... Try formating. My Sys is Win7/63bit HP Elite. If your replacing C: then use the transfer program from WD Free and works great.
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the drive is not formatted with any version of windows. it is formatted with a run time version of linux. it handles the formatting. the windows 8 machines should see it in the network browser. did you set up user rights?
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When I plugged it into my laptop with Windows 7, it recognized it. I put a blank CD in the drive and I was then able to use it.
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Windows should recognize the drive. Contact manufacturer. You might have a faulty drive or your blu-ray software might not be compatible.
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If it shows up in the BIOS I'd check and see if it's listed in the Device Manager. I have 2 of these drives and they work very well on my Win7/64 host and are listed in the Device Manager in my 8 and 8.1 VMware VM's. If it's listed in your Device Manager you should be able to see it in Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management under Storage|Disk Management. If it's there you will need to initialize the drive so it can be formatted and used as either an extension of an existing drive or new partitions. Hope this helps.
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I used a 2TB Seagate drive, and had no trouble recognizing it in Win 7. Both USB and E-SATA worked ok for me. Have you tried both interfaces? Might want to try connecting it to another system as well.
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Mine never worked. I heard it running but would never read the disk. I was worried my disk was bad until it worked in a different drive.