Weird problem with A300 and external drive

Info about my comp: A300-29U model Windows 7 ATI Edition (32) SATA Unknown External Drive ----- Ok, so yesterday I plugged in my external drive as usual to check some music. Everything was ok and I went to sleep. This morning when I woke up and tried that again the computer doesn't see external drive. You hear that sound when you turn it on/off, but it doesn't show or even do auto-run of my external drive. I changed 3 new USB cables and plugged in into 3 differen USB Hubs and everything is the same... I checked in Device Manager, it says that device is working fine, but I have 2 Base Missing Driver errors. I suppose that's for this external drive, but I don't have a clue how to fix it. I downloaded new chipset/bios drivers and have a fresh Avira installed. Any tips?

If you have a two devices banged out, deleted them and restart. It should auto detect the devices and load the driver. I had a problem like this. That worked for me.
What kind of hard drive is it.

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