Windows 10: Drive showing in Disk management, options greyed out but can't access drive

Drive showing in Disk management, options greyed out but can't access drive

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Disk Management - All drive options are greyed out

I have a 1TB HDD I'm trying to set up as an external storage drive. Plugged it in, enclosure power light is on and the disk is running, but doesn't show up in My Computer. The drive does show up in Disk Management and in the Device Manager, but literally every option to modify the drive in any way is greyed out. It's also not showing up in diskpart via cmd or in the bios.

I've been digging through other community questions regarding certain drive options being greyed out, but can't find anything for a situation where it recognizes a partition yet there's nothing whatsoever I can do to edit the drive.

 

Hard Drive Not Showing Up; Disk Management Options Blocked

Hi, It’s very difficult to understand what the actual problem you are facing. Is it your hard drive showing up in disk management or not? Please describe in clear ways because both conditions
have a different solution. I think you should read this blog. It may help you resolve your problem: https://www.stellarinfo.com/blog/external-hard-drive-not-showing-up-recover-files/

 

Disk management options greyed out for external drive

Running Windows 10 version 22H2 Hi, I'm trying to recover some space on an external hard drive using Disk Management. This is because it shows as two separate drives when plugged in and I'd like it all combined as a single drive letter.

If I click on any of the partitions the only option is "Help", except the main partition Kingston Ext Drive F which has some options greyed out and these options available: Change Drive letter and paths Format Shrink Volume Delete Volume It's only 20Gb on a 1Tb drive but if anyone could help with this I'd be grateful. Thanks in advance