Laptop not recognizing my hard drive anymore?

I have a Toshiba laptop, with an external hard drive, and my laptop isn't recognizing it. It has before, so, what could be the problem?

Answer:

Have you made sure the power light or indicator light has come on if it has one? Also try a different port. If it still doesn't work then we can check the device manager to check the status and if it even detects it. Make sure another USB device works on your computer to rule out USB failure.

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I have a Toshiba mini laptop. Mine does the exact same thing! I'm not much help, but Ide like to know this too.

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What part has failed, the laptop or the drive? Do you have other inexpensive hardware you can use to perform tests?

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may be the drivers for the hard disk is not available....try downloading drivers from web and i guess it will help.....

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