Sometimes when you plug a USB drive into your PC it doesn't show up. We're going to look at a few ways to fix that problem.

To format a hard drive before you start using it in Windows, use the Disk Management utility; on a Mac, use Disk Utility.

The disk in question is disk04 - a 128 GB SSD drive in an external USB enclosure. I booted the Macbook from a X.11 USB install drive and there was an internal SSD drive as well. a simple fdisk ...

I and other people I know seem to each suffer from a similar problem across different brand and models of hard drive docks. The drive partition just one day disappears. The data is still there, but ...