Windows 10: 2nd External Drive does not have a Drive letter

I have Win 10 trying to connect a 2nd external drive and it should show up as F. The internal drive shows up as C, the first external drive shows up as E. Can't seem to get the 2nd one to show up on new PC. It works on my other PC's.


Went to Computer Management, Disk Management and it shows up as Disk 2. C=Disk 0, D=Disk 1. Disk 2 has Partition 1, healthy EFI System Partition 200MB, and Partion 2 Healthy Primary Partition 3725.7 MB. When I right click on either of these everything is grayed out except delete partition and help.


What can be done to make this drive visible on this new PC?


Thank you,


neal

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Any usb flash drive I plug into my computer isn't assigned a drive letter. The physical drive shows in the "safely remove hardware" but it doesnt show up in disk management. I have tried to populate the volume thru the safely remove hardware properties window and it does pop up in the list but it doesn't stay there. This isn't a format or assign a letter problem. It's more complicated then that. Maybe one of the services needed for usb drive management was disabled? Suggestions needed. btw external usb harddrives work fine.

 

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Hi @WilliamSlessor!

I'm sorry to hear about the confusion with the external drive. What I would suggest is to go in Disk Management and try to reassign the letters on both drives with a third one, and then go back to the original letters. For instance - change the G:G: drive to
M:, and then reassign it as G: again.

You can follow the steps described in this KB article:

http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=T1tsut

Hope this helps and let us know how it went.

 

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Hi Ridhwan,

Sorry for the delayed response. Let me continue to assist you further.

The issue here could have been due to fact that the Drive I:\ is encrypted or a flush drive. This forces the computer to not recognize the format and displays the error message. I suggest here to follow the steps below and check if it helps.

• Press Windows Key + letter 'X.'
• Choose 'Disk Management.'
• Right click on the External drive and select 'Change Drive letter and Path names.'
• Rename the drive letter i.e. remove letter I and say you replace it with letter
  J.
• Restart the computer and check the issue status.

Hope this helps. Please reply for further queries on this.