Uninstalling an external hard drive? (details inside)

Thats it you have done right! I dont understand that Question you want to remove the ext. hd?
Greets Pupsdruese

I want my computer to recognize it, that is what my last question was about. It says it has no driver now.

Uninstalling an external hard drive is usually just a matter of dismounting it and pulling the USB cable out of the computer.

If you are in the Device Manager for this then either I have no idea what you are really trying to do, or more likely you are just inviting disaster.

It’s what the company’s tech support forum is instructing people to do. Thanks for letting me know about this, jerv. :)

I’m with jerv on this one. I’m not sure why your are in the device manager. The drive should show up in the bar on the bottom right. Right click and eject disk.

It tells me I can safely eject it, but it won’t show up on My Computer. It says it’s working properly. I don’t get it. It shows up but I can’t get to it. I really do appreciate everyone’s help. I’ll put it up on a shelf until I can figure out something.

Before anyone mentions it, I can’t afford someone to get the info off for me and, honestly, I don’t trust services that do that. Personal experience of a bait and switch price.

What are you trying to do? Just unplug the damn thing. If it’s a flash drive, right-click and hit ‘eject’ first so the machine won’t nag you about improper removal of the hardware [not that that often stops me].
Are you worried about wrecking data? Have the computer turned off when you unplug it. Turn it back on and voila, the computer won’t list the drive

Sounds like you have diddled around with it already. The computer is not finding it right now. Power down and pull it. Power back up without it. You should not see the drive listed. To check it stick it or its cable back in the usb port. The computer should “find” your drive. Then look at your data. When satisfied do the right-click, eject thing.

If you want it to show in my computer it needs to be initialised and formatted.

Right click on my computer, left click manage, double left click storage, double left click disk management. Right click on the drive it shows as unformatted and format. It will then format and be allocated a drive letter which will show in My Computer.

As others have said, if it’s a USB drive, click on “Safely Remove Hardware” then remove it when it says it’s safe.

If it’s an actual external drive connected through SATA (or IDE), then you need to turn your computer off, then remove it.

Unless there’s something totally unique about your system and the drive, there’s no need to use Device Manager.

I’m not trying to remove it from my computer. This is what is happening and what I need it to do. When I plug in my extrenal hard drive, the safely remove icon is at the very bottom left of the screen where it’s supposed to be. Removal isn’t the problem, But thank you. :) It doesn’t show up in disk management, but it shows up in drive manager under disk drives. It shows that it is working properly and that everything is fine. I just can access any files on the external and I need to. It’s not dead, I just haven’t figured out how to make it work yet.

Sorry, I didn’t realize how vague my question was until now. My last question was about how to get it to work so I could get the files off of there.