Windows 10: can't see one of my drives after clean install of Win 10

All,

I had to do a clean install of Windows 10. Everything is fine except now I can't see one of my hard drives. I pull up File Explorer and drives C, D are there but no E. Is there a way I can fix this?? Before doing this I had 3 hard drives installed (C [main], D, E]


Craig

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no audio after clean install of Win 10.

Many thanks for all your help

 

no audio after clean install of Win 10.

Hello,

Please run Playing Audio troubleshooter from Control Panel > Troubleshooting > View all. See if it helps you.

Hope this helps, Good luck

 

Hi, could you please post a screenshot of Disk Management (or preferably Minitool Partition Wizard or similar if you have that)?

e.g.
Windows key + X, click Disk Management
To post a screenshot please use the insert image icon to the left of the video icon above your post

Check your missing disk has a drive letter allocated. If not, try assigning one.

 

Here you go

I attached the screenshot to a Word doc.

 

A lot of people here won't blindly open a word document. If you use the snipping tool you can then upload the image right into your post.
How to Upload and Post Screenshots and Files at Ten Forums

 

Like this please- make sure text in all columns is visible.

 

I'll open anything *Wink

Here is their picture:

 

Odd - CDFS
What is CDFS? What Opens a CDFS? File Format List from WhatIs.com

How did you expect the disk to be formatted?
And the size is even stranger...
What were you expecting to see?

 

Also looks like there are more drives to see in graphic, notice scroll bar on right (not that it would necessarily tell us anything that the text doesn't).

 

CDFS is Compact Disk File System, its his optical drive. Its showing because it has a CD in it.

 

I would say the issue is the one marked as Dynamic. It doesn't have a drive letter and thus won't show up in File explorer. Do you need the files on it? If not repartition and reformate it as a regular volume.

 

As for the opening of .doc/.docx files, they can contain infected macros, dangerous.

Problems can occur when installing/reinstalling Windows and having more drives than needed actually connected to get Windows up and running, they can always be dealt with later.

 

Agreed- Disk 1.
Similar (ish) here:
Missing Hard drive after installing Win 10 Solved - Windows 10 Forums

You may need to try recovering data from it if you don't have a backup.

There were a few reports of inaccessible/vanishing disks at one point after installing Win 10.

 

I had one internal drive become RAW during an upgrade. It was a while back, don't remember what build it was. I lost what was on it. I had backups anyway. I just had to partition and format it to get full use of it again.