My Seagate hard drive not found
Searching on the Internet, we can find some question like “I have a 1TB Seagate hard
drive, but it cannot be found in File Explorer. Can you help me fix this issue?
Thanks in advance!”
As is known to all, Seagate is a relatively common hard drive brand. And Seagate hard
drives are popular among computer users for their good performance. However, users
may sometimes encounter problems like Seagate hard drive not detected or Seagate
hard drive not recognized. At this point, the data on the Seagate hard drive will
become inaccessible. And you cannot use the Seagate hard drive properly.
Common reasons of Seagate hard drive not detected
Have you ever encounter the similar problem as the above presented case? Do you know
the reason of it? Here below, you can see the common reasons for why Seagate hard
drive becomes undetectable/unrecognized.
● This Seagate hard drive does not automatically assign a drive letter.
● May be your hard drive has got infected with virus or malware.
● The Seagate hard drive might have got damaged.
● Hard drive failure or may be the hard drive contains bad sector.
These are common reasons. So, what should we do to deal with it? Read below to find
the best solution.
Solutions of Seagate hard drive cannot be detected?
If the hard drive cannot be detected, you can try the solutions below:
Solution 1. Assign drive letter for your Seagate hard drive
Sometimes, the hard drive not showing up in File Explorer because it is not assigned
a drive letter. In this case, you only need to assign a drive letter to
the hard disk to solve this problem.
Solution 2. Detection of antivirus
If the hard disk has got infected with virus or malware, you should run anti-virus
software to detect and repair the hard disk.
Solution 3. Format Seagate hard drive
If the file system of Seagate hard drive is corrupted, it won’t be recognized in
computer, you can format it to solve this problem. It is a good choice to use third
party tool like AOMEI
Partition Assistant is a professional hard drive manage utility which can
help you format the unrecognized Seagate hard drive conveniently in Windows 10/8/7,
Windows XP, as well as Windows Vista.
The following example will show you the
specific steps of formatting the Seagate:
Step 1. Download, install and run
AOMEI Partition Assistant. Right click the partition of your Seagate hard drive and
select “Format Partition”

Step 2.In the pop-up window, choose the file system you want. And
you can also specify “Cluster Size” under file system if you need to. Then, click
“OK”.

Step 3. After that, it will go back to the main interface. Preview
the changes and click “Apply” > “Proceed” to complete these operations.

Solution 4.Repair corrupted hard drive in Windows
10/8/7
If your Seagate hard drive contains bad sector, AOMEI Partition Assistant can help
you too. It provides easy-to-use disk partition management. Let’s see the specific
steps:
Step 1. Run AOMEI Partition Assistant. Right click the partition of
the Seagate hard drive and choose “Check Partition” under “Advanced” tab.

Step 2. In the pop-up window, select the way of checking errors to
perform and click “OK”.

Then, wait for the process to finish.

Summary
After follow these simple steps, you can easily solve the problem Seagate hard drive
not detected or recognzied. AOMEI Partition Assistant can be the best hard drive
manage utility. Besides Format Partition and Check Partition, it also provides you
many other powerful functions like Create/Delete/Resize partition, Rebuild MBR, Copy disk,
Create bootable media and so on. If you want more advanced feature like Partition alignment or Allocated free space,
you can upgrade to AOMEI Partition Assistant
Professional.