Why does my external hard disk appear as a removable disk and not a hard disk drive?
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 at
5:58 pm
I just bought a new StoreJet External Hard Disk and it appears in the "Devices With Removable Storage" category and not in the "Hard Disk Drives" one. I used to have a Toshiba Hard Disk (external) and that used to appear in the Hard "Disk Drive" category on "My Computer". So is there a way to make my hard disk appear as a Hard Disk Drive.
Tagged with: devices with removable storage • external hard disk • Hard Disk Drive • hard disk drives • toshiba
Filed under: Hard Disk Drive
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how the computer defines the hard drive is irrelevant the question is does it work,if so it isn’t broken so don’t try to fix it,that’s what i recommend
anything you plug outside of the case (i.e firewire, usb) is considered external becuae of course its external and not internal. That is whyits called removable.
becuase external hard drives are not worthy of being recognized as a computer’s hard drive. Internals are easy to install.
External are just so not worth it. They are too expensive.
Because it is external, and plugged into an outside port which the computer recognises as a removable mass storage device.
Plus… think about it, it IS easily removable isn’t it?
Because it is removable and not wired directly to the BIOS on the motherboard like your C: drive.