Older version of external drive not recognized on new laptop

I purchased my unit about 7 years ago and no longer have the manual, there is no label or description of the type of drive on the actual drive. I lost my power cord about a year ago at work (it connected to the desktop fine) and recently replaced it and am now trying to connect it to a new laptop and it is not recognized. When I looked for a way to update the driver for my WD external hard drive the s/n is no longer available on the website. The one listed is [Deleted-Privacy] and the WD P/N is WD10000h1u-00.

If you can direct me to either a way to install a driver on my new laptop for the correct model that would be great. I have run the device manager and trouble shooter on the laptop and that does not appear to be the issue. Thank you!

Welcome to the Community.

That model number corresponds to this hard drive:

http://support.wdc.com/product/install.asp?groupid=110&lang=en

Did you look for clues in Disk Management as opposed to Device Manager?

http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1284/