External Hard drive not being read

[bigal50]

I recently removed my 500gb external Hard drive and attached to another PC ( for what purpose I dont recall). I removed the HD using the " Safely Remove Hardware" feature located in the lower left hand tray. Yet when I put the harddrive back  on the first computer it dosent show when I click on My computer. I see the C: drive, the D: drive, the printer. Yet I dont see the HDD which was usually the E: drive.  When I go to My computer/properties/device manager - i see the hard drive and indications say its working properly. If  I go to
" Safely Remove Hardware"  I can see the hard drive. Hmm?    Oh and by the way I am using a USB hub.  I removed the hard drive once again and attached it to my laptop which it was read and indicated the the device was ready, installed and ready to use. Yet I get the same problems as with the first computer. External HDD not shown on when I open My computer. Hard drive is getting power all power lights are on.  Please help. This computer is drving me crazy. Now the external HDD is acting up. Arrrrrrgggh !!!!!!!!!

[Salmon Trout]

Does the hard drive have its own power supply or is it drawing its power from the USB port? Is the hub a powered hub or a passive one? What happens if you connect the hard drive directly to one of the PC's USB ports?

[bigal50]

The HDD had its own power supply but the usb hub does not. when i plug the HDD directly into a usb port the same thing happens.

[Allan]

What shows up in Disk Management (Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Disk Management)?

[bigal50]

I see my C: drive with a status of healthy in a section up top and some kind of graph below telling me the same.

Below in the graph section i see Disk 1 G: No media -BUT I ALLREADY REMOVED THIS FLASH DRIVE!
I also see DISK 2 Basic 465.76 gb unallocated.
I also see below representaions for my cd and dvd roms

[Allan]

Disk 2 is the drive in question and it's showing up as unformatted. Try connecting it directly to a usb port without the hub.

[patio]

Sounds like it was unplugged without using the "Safely Remove Hardware" function...

[bigal50]

I am positive I used the " Safely Remove " function.   So how do I get things back to normal??

[patio]

You could try Recuva....FREE.

[bigal50]

Replying to Allan.

I tried connecting directly to a usb port without the hub but I still get the same results???

[bigal50]

Replying to Patio.

What is   " Recuva....Free "

[patio]

Click Here...

[Salmon Trout]

Replying to Patio.

What is   " Recuva....Free "

Replying to bigal50

What is "Google"?

[bigal50]

Replying to Salmon.   " What is Google?"  Nice answer. Ha ha. I like. I get it. Thanks.  Will give it a try.

[bigal50]

Reply to Patio

I tried Recuva ...Free.  It ask me to choose the drive I want to scan,  etc.   The drive I want to scan is the 500gb external hard drive which my computer cant see or get too. Recuva scans all the other drives except the external because my computer cant see or get too it.  Or am I not using the Recuva..Free correctly??!!