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#NEED TO DOWNLOAD DRIVER FOR WD ELEMENTS WINDOWS 10#
If your WD hard drive is even not showing up in Windows 10 or Windows 11 Disk Management, you could consider whether there is something wrong with the WD hard drive device driver.
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▶ Methods 4: Update WD hard drive device driver PS: AOMEI Partition Assistant is not only compatible with Windows 10, but also with Windows 11/8.1/8/7, XP, and Vista. Confirm formatting operation and click “Apply” and "Proceed" to perform it. Choose a proper file system for WD hard drive (Here NTFS is selected).ģ.
In the main interface, right-click the hard drive partition that needs formatting and choose “Format Partition”.Ģ.
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Install and fire up AOMEI Partition Assistant. Then, do the step-by-step tutorial given below.ġ. In the beginning, you can free download this great software. To format WD hard drive in Windows Server, you can use AOMEI Partition Assistant Server. It is compatible with Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7, XP, and Vista. Therefore, it is recommended to apply the powerful disk formatting tool – AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard, which breaks the limit of 32GB in partition size and offers you more options about file system. For instance, it is unable to format hard drive partition over 32GB in size to FAT32 file system. However, this Windows built-in tool is with some limits. You are certain to format WD hard drive using Disk Management. You can employ this way if your WD hard drive was previously formatted with an unrecognized file system under windows or there are corrupted files on it. ▶ Method 3: Format WD hard drive to a compatible file system Close Disk Management and access hard drive from Windows 10/11 File Explorer. In the pop-up window, click on “Add” to assign a drive letter to the hard drive partition or click “Change” to change the drive letter.Ĥ. Right-click the hard drive partition and choose “Change Drive Letter and Path…”ģ. If your hard drive is in such a case, you can assign drive letter to it or change its drive letter.ġ. WD hard drive not showing up in Windows 10/11 File Explorer could be the result of drive letter missing or conflict. ▶ Method 2: Assign drive letter to WD hard drive partition »It is possible that you are unable to initialize hard drive and receive errors like the device is not ready. If you don’t care about the data on WD hard drive, you can apply this way. »Initializing WD hard drive will lead to data loss. Then, you can do what New Simple Volume Wizard prompts. Right-click the disk and choose “Create New Simple Volume”. Choose “Initialize Disk” and pick one partition system between MBR and GPT.ģ.
Locate the WD hard drive that going to be initialized and right-click it.Ģ. This way applied to the situation that your WD hard drive shows as not initialized disk when you open Disk Management. ▶ Method 1: Initialize WD hard drive in Disk Management You can take measures described in the following text to enable your WD hard drive to show up properly in Windows 10/11 File Explorer. In fact, it is not rare that computer users are bothered by WD hard drive not recognized in Windows 10 issue, which can be caused by various events like incompatible file system, invalid USB port, outdated driver, and so on. Is there anyone who encountered a similar issue? Can you give me some advice? Thanks for your help!”ĭifferent solutions under different situations But I would like to use it to store some files. That is to say, I am unable to access my WD hard drive from File Explorer. However, I found that WD Elements not showing in my computer File Explorer after I connected it to my computer running Windows 10.
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“I have a Western Digital 1TB Elements Portable external hard drive, which used to work well with my friend’s computer. We or the computer original equipment manufacturer (OEM) may not provide technical support for some or all issues that could arise from the usage of this generic version of software drivers.My WD hard drive not being recognized in Windows 10 To avoid any potential installation incompatibilities on your OEM system, We recommend that you check with your OEM and use the software provided via your system manufacturer. However, computer original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) may have altered the features, incorporated customizations, or made other changes to the software or software packaging they provide.
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The software drivers provided on this page are generic versions and can be used for general purposes. System manufacturer - System Product Name Hewlett-Packard - HP Pavilion g6 Notebook PC This download is valid for the product(s) listed below: The following operating system has used this driver: It's released by Microsoft Type: DiskDrive WD Elements 1042 USB Device is a windows driver.