So as is stated in my title, I have an external hard drive (2.5 inch internal laptop drive attached to a USB bridge). It worked perfectly on my windows 7 x64 machine. Then I did a clean install of windows 8.1 and suddenly the drive isn't working, I get a "local disk" entry in "This PC" but the loading green line at the top of explorer keeps moving slowly and never recognizes the drive.
Just to check it wasn't the drive, I created an Ubuntu 12.04 USB stick and booted from it and plugged in the drive, it works and I was able to access all my files. Any ideas on how I can make this drive accessible in windows 8.1?
Thank you,
WishingStar
Best Answer
Make sure your USB Drivers are all up to date VIA your computers manufacturer. If not I'd still unistall and reinstall it.