renamed drive,formatted drive, now won't show up

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weitzu42

New Member
Augh,

I recently purchased a SimpleTech Simple Drive by Fabrik, I thought it was a simple click and drag process but when I got home it has been nothing but a nightmare. I plugged in the usb and I tried to open the drive when it said i couldn't, I looked up why, and it was because multiple "things" were using the same drive letter? C:/ D:/ , whatever, so I went into Disk Management and renamed the external hard drive to K://, then it asked me if I wanted to format my external hard drive and naturally that's what I thought one was suppose to do, the process took over two plus hours, the next day when I went to System and Maintenance to begin backing up files, the drive would not show up on the drop down bar, only thing that hows up is Cd/DVD F: drive, the drive won't show up anywhere, not in Disk Management, not on My computer, only place it shows up is Device Manager under "Disk Drives-SD1 Device"

Did I do something wrong? Why won't it show up now, what can I do to fix this?
 

My Computer

System One

Hello weitzu42 and welcome to the forums :party:

a quick trawl around the web indicates that you are not alone with problems seeing your Simple drive :(. a couple of things to try ...

check in disk management and see if you have an area of unallocated space equal to the size of the drive which would indicate that the format you did was unsuccessful

try updating the driver in device manager

alternatively remove the driver and re-install

Or it could be a simple case of faulty hardware which it seems is not unheard of with these drives in which case replacement would be your only option :(.

hope this helps
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro x64 Latest Release Preview
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer G276HL 27", (DVi) + Samsung 39" HDTV (HDMI)
    Screen Resolution
    2 x 1920x1080 @50Hz
  • Manufacturer/Model
    Real World Computers (Custom by Me)
    CPU
    AMD FX8350 Vishera 8 Core @4GHz
    Motherboard
    Asus M5A78L-M USB3
    Memory
    32GB [4x8GB] DDR3 1600 MHz
    Graphics card(s)
    Asus nVidia GTX750TI-OC-2GD5 (2GB DDR5)
    Sound Card
    ASUS Xoner DG + SPDIF to 5.1 System + HDMI
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung 32" TV
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    Internal
    Crucial CT256MX100SSD1 256GB SSD,
    Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1 2TB,

    External (USB3)
    Seagate Backup+ Hub BK SCSI Disk 8TB
    2.5/3.5 Hot Swap Cradle, USB3 + eSata (client HDDs)
    NAS 4TB
    PSU
    Aerocool Templarius Imperator 750W 80+ Silver
    Case
    AeroCool X-Warrior Red Devil Tower
    Cooling
    Hyper103 CPU, Rear 120mm, Front 2x120mm, Side 2x120mm
    Internet Speed
    68 MB Down 18.5 MB Up
    Other Info
    Six Sensor Auto / Manual Digital cooling (Fan) control with Touch control Panel
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