▶ Method 1: Initialize WD hard drive in Disk Management You can take the measures described in the following text to enable your WD hard drive to show up properly in Windows 10/11 File Explorer. In fact, it is not rare that computer users are bothered by WD hard drive not being recognized in Windows 10 issues, which can be caused by various events like incompatible file system, invalid USB port, outdated driver, and so on. Is there anyone who encountered a similar issue? Can you give me some advice? Thanks for your help!”ĭifferent solutions under different situations But I would like to use it to store some files. That is to say, I am unable to access my WD hard drive from File Explorer. However, I found that WD Elements not showing in my computer File Explorer after I connected it to my computer running Windows 10. I have a Western Digital 1TB Elements Portable external hard drive, which used to work well with my friend’s computer.