My WD passport detected but not working

After installing Windows 7 32-bit, my Western Digital Passport drive is being detected, but I cannot see a drive to open it.

I checked the drive on another system and it works, but not on mine.

What should I do?

Solution 1:

Try this: right click on Computer from the start menu and click manage.

Go to Storage > Disk Management

If you can see the drive there Right click on it and click on Change Drive Letter and Paths.

Assign it any drive letter you want.

Solution 2:

If it is a newly bought one, you need to initialise it and format it, so that Windows 7 can see it.

Go to Storage > Disk Management:

Under your C drive, there will be a "New volume, uninitialised" - right click, initialise. Then it will change to "New volume, unallocated". Right click, allocate it a name and a drive letter, then format. It should be ready to use.