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Use a different cable to connect your hard drive and computer. Outdated or corrupt drivers can prevent your external hard drive from being recognized. Update the drivers with these steps ...

For ordinary external hard drives, Thunderbolt is very much ... and many external drives now come with cables with both rectangular USB Type-A connectors and oval USB Type-C ones to enable adapter ...