Note – Before the OS loads you can see a screen “press F2/Del etc to enter BIOS”.īIOS shows a list of all hardware. Reboot and enter the BIOS by pressing F1, F2, F10, and Del (as set by the manufacturer). The steps you follow in the case of the new and old drives are the same if the hard disk is not recognized. What to do in case of an unrecognized hard drive? Internal Drive Not Recognised Read more about how to recover data from BitLocker encrypted hard drive. This happens because BitLocker encryption is not enabled. The hard drive has a yellow exclamation mark next to it This shows that the drive is recognized by the device but not initialized.Ĥ. Explorer shows the drive, but it has no letter allocated You plug in an external hard drive or USB, and it fails to recognize.ģ. Of course, the system drive has to show up otherwise how did you boot the device?Ģ. You have two hard drives, and one is not showing up in Explorer. As far as the OS is concerned it does not even know there is a hard drive (or it would have shown).ġ. How to Know Hard Drive is Not Showing Up? In this article, we discuss how to fix the hard disk not recognized problem. It can happen to both external hard drives and second internal hard drives. A hard drive not showing up can be irksome.

Bitlocker on external drive