Windows XP Unable to Recognize WD Elements 1TB (WD BUZG0010BBK-EESN) External Drive

Hello. More than a year ago I bought an external 2.5 "WD Elements 1TB (WD BUZG0010BBK-EESN) for recording programs from TV and as an additional disk to a computer (for photos, movies, some programs, etc.) The disk is formatted in NTFS and a computer with Windows 7, which is usually hooked up, handles it without any problems (I checked it on other computers with friends and there are 7 no problem.) The problem appeared when I wanted to rip data from the netbook (MSI U135DX with Windows XP Home SP3). is running and working all the time, but you can not see it in My Computer or in Disk Management, I also connected the borrowed Verbatim 1TB drive, but it was formatted in FAT32 and XP with it.
What is the reason for this? Any program or setting will solve the problem? I would like to add that the format is not an option, because I have too much data on the netbook and external drive to secure them somewhere safely.
Thanks in advance for your help!

Hello
And in the device manager and disk drives is visible?

Maybe there is a power problem, sometimes there are disks requiring more than 500mA, which gives us USB 2.0 and then have two USB plugs for more power.

You can not see anywhere in the Device Manager too. The drive is powered only by a single USB cable, other devices coped with it.

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I have connected it once more to the disc drives. I went through troubleshooting, but you still can not see the disk in My Computer

I would check whether in bios it is visible when choosing a device from which the computer can be started. If you do not see it in my opinion, the problems are with power supply or some incompatibility due to the fact that it is a USB 3.0 drive and compatible with USB 2.0 and the netbook has only USB 2.0

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This if you can now see the device manager -> disk drives, it should be visible in disk management. If you have a GPT partition table type, not an MBR partition, then you will not see the partition except one unknown (disk and volume properties). GPT only supports XP 64-bit

@ romano83 I checked in the BIOS, it is visible. Windows sees it exactly as you write - a protected GPT partition. Can be cured in some way to work on 32bit? 32 bit 7 normally sees the drive and no problem, so why 32 bit XP has a problem? The order of disks in the BIOS has any meaning in this case?

If you change the style of the partition, it will work and in XP You must, however, do it properly so as not to lose the data contained therein.

I just read about something like GPT loader, only this damn paid ... maybe some alternative? Can you change the partition style without any problems?

I do not know about Windows 7, but under 10 in Disk Management you can right-click on the disk and choose "convert to MBR disk". The disk can not currently be used.
But I have never used it, so read or lose your data.

I have had this problem recently.
Protected GPT partitions can be read under 64bit systems and therefore can not be seen under Win XP 32 bit.
In my case (new disk) you just need to reset the MBR partitions what we do with the DiskPart program built into windows:
Start> Run> cmd> DiskPart> list disk (check what comp can see the drives)> select disk 1 (1-number of the selected disk - systemic usually has the number 0)> clean
Then in the explorer and set the partitions, that is in Start> Run> diskmgmt.msc

But this applies to empty discs and yours is not. Here is the list of commands:



(this is for posterity)

użytkownik9 wrote:

I have had this problem recently.
Protected GPT partitions can be read under 64bit systems and therefore can not be seen under Win XP 32 bit.

Where did you read such stupidity that GPT is only for 64 bit?
I am asking because it can be determined who the idiotism first wrote
Of course, GPT can be used on 32 bit and 64 bit systems.
You have no idea about the topic, do not say it because people are reading this and someone less oriented may think that it's true.
You can change GPT to MBR without data loss
Greetings.

To read:
http://www.disk-partition.com/help/convert-gpt-mbr-disk.html

Using the clean command author it will lose its data at least temporarily. Then there will be a small problem with data recovery. The author wants to save data, harmful advice. You can change the partition style without losing data, eg using dmde or GParted.