I have an older WD1200 RO15 External Hard Drive. It will only turn on rarely. Every couple of weeks I’d plug it in and If it decided to turn on, the computer couldn’t see it. If I shut it off it wouldn’t turn on again. I bought it when I was still running either Windows 98 or Windows Vista. Now I’m…

Driver for Legacy Hard Drive

DavidSucesso April 6, 2014, 9:38am 2

Windows 7 should detect your drive without any problems

Can you remove the hard drive from the external case and connect it diretly in the computer?