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FletcherHale
Jun 25, 2025Iron Contributor
Why my external hard drive not showing up windows 11 file explorer?
This is a very weird issue. I bought an WD 2TB external hard drive and Windows 11 can't recognize this drive when connecting to the computer. It is a brand new drive and got from Amazon. So there sho...
AldousPierce
Jun 25, 2025Iron Contributor
It is mostly because of unsupported file system or the disk needs reformatting. You can use a dedicated disk manager software to do that if the external drive is not showing up in Windows file explorer.