External
Hard Drive Is Not Accessible Since The Device Is Not Ready?
"Hello,
I have a 1TB WD external hard disk that always works fine on my Windows laptop,
which often is used at home, since it was bought about several months ago.
However, recently, when I try to connect it to a Windows 7 desktop computer
that often is placed in my office, this external drive is not shown in My
Computer interface as usual. But, it shows up in Device Manager. But, when I
attempt to click this drive there, it says it cannot be accessed now since the
device is not ready. Can anyone help explain why such device not ready error
happens to me? What can I do now to resolve this problem and access my drive
contents easily? Thanks for any advice here."
Hello, friends! What has happened to this
external drive before you connect it to your office desktop computer? Have you
ejected this hard drive to your PC without safely remove it off from your
original laptop? Have you used this computer on your on this office computer
before? Or have you tried to connect this drive to your office computer with a
different USB port? OK! No matter what your situation is, here are several
clues for you to resolve this device not ready problem.
Common
Reasons Behind Device Not Read Error Problems:
In these days, the computer internal hard
disks or external hard disks often bring people the related device not ready
error issues due to three major reasons. Here are these three ones for you to
consider:
1).
Computer external/internal hard disk is corrupted seriously.
To be honest, how does this external hard
disk show on your original laptop? Is it damaged somehow since it gives some
hard disk errors, including external drive RAW filesystem error problems, externalhard drive not formatted error problems or corrupted
external drive error problems, etc? What have you done to this external
drive before plugging it to your office desktop computer? Have you rudely
removed it off from your PC without clicking safely hardware remove icon? All
right! No matter what has happened to this USB hard disk, as long as this drive
is really seriously damaged or corrupted due to your wrong operations or other
drive malfunction problems, such computer device not ready error is absolutely
possible to occur.
2).
Computer internal/external hard disk is not correctly connected.
The computer device not ready error
problems also are able to happen when the internal/external hard disk is not
correctly connected. Why? Let’s imagine: when your computer hard disk is
loosely or wrongly connected there, this computer sometimes even cannot find
and detect there is a hard disk inserted or even exist. How come it will help
you read or access anything inside, right? Hence, go check whether your
computer WD external drive is connected well there.
3).
Computer internal/external hard disk is not workable on your new PC.
Though, in these days, many hard disk
manufacturers have designed and developed various types of USB hard disks for
users to use under different computers and OS versions. However, that doesn’t
mean a specific external hard disk could be used under different computers with
different Windows or Mac OS versions. Therefore, this drive also is able to be
incompatible with your PC and gives this device not ready error problem.
Overall, no matter what your reasons are,
you’d better check your computer or this USB hard disk well at firstly.
How
to Remove Your Device Not Ready Problems?
In order to remove this device not ready
problem, you are supposed to find the actual reasons behind and also find the
possible solutions correspondingly. If you also do not know what you are
supposed to do now, go follow these below steps to take chances:
Step1.
Go connect this computer external hard disk with another computer USB port.
In order to make sure whether this WD
external drive is connected rightly, you’d better go re-connect this drive with
another computer USB port or USB cable. If it is still inaccessible since the
device is not ready, go read the same removable hard disk on another computer.
In your case, you can disconnect it and go try it on your laptop and check it
there. If all these methods also make no difference, your device not ready
error issues may not be caused by incorrect connection, go see the else
solutions.
Step2.
Check computer hard disk is really healthy and workable.
As you’ve read above, such drive problems
also could be aroused by damaged external drive. Hence, merely adopt solutions
to check whether this removable hard disk is healthy and workable now. What you
can do is merely to run computer CHKDSK to detect whether there are many bad
sectors or problems and try to repair or fix them. Of course, with extra money,
also download some drive diagnosing or troubleshooting software to test this
drives and see whether there are some serious damages. Overall, no matter which
way you have selected, as long as this computer hard disk is really physically
damaged and unworkable, you’d better change another drive to be used on this
office computer. But, if it only get some logical problems and could be fixed
with simple formatting processes, go back up everything important data and
format this drive fix everything.
Please
Note: If this hard disk is still inaccessible and
does not allow you to make any data backups, computer external drive data recoverysoftware could help you rescue everything desired back.
Step3.
Go check office computer configuration to see whether this drive is workable
there.
When you doubt whether this WD external
drive is compatible with your office computer, you’d better check the computer
configurations to see whether it is workable there, like the computer operating
system, computer USB port types, computer file system types, computer hard disk
capacity limitation or etc. For example, if you do use this external drive on
your hone laptop with Mac OS, your office desktop computer with Windows OS
often cannot recognize the Mac USB hard disk drives well. In such case, you’d
change another compatible one to store the new data or merely format this
original drive before creating drive data backups well elsewhere.
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