Windows 10: For some reason my F and G drives have suddenly vanished.

Let me try again! For some reason, about two weeks ago I lost my c, f, g drives. I save most of my work on memory sticks so if I cannot re locate these drives about 4 years work will be lost. Or do I need a new computer?Can anyone out there help me? If so then, as I am NOT a computer expert please spell out the moves I need to make to get back to normal. I will make a start:-1 Switch on computer!!

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f drive

Hello Kathy,

Based on the information you have provided in your post; we need to do further investigation. To assist you better, we'd like to know the following:

• Have you tried using a third party software to manage the disk partition?
• Did you format the drive?

We suggest that you check for the drive in the Disk Management and look if it appears. Follow these steps:

• Log on as administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
• Press Windows+R key and type diskmgmt.msc and then click OK.

Look if the Drive F: appears and check if it is unallocated.

Looking forward to your update.

 

change of drive from f to g

i have purchased a transcend external hard drive but cannot change the drive from f to g which is where the transend resides. I have read the replies - thank you - to siimilasr problems and get to the administrator screen but asks me to change the proram??
and when I do nothing happens. in other words I can't get the administrator screen to behave as suggested by your experts. please help and thank you patricia

 

External Hard drive was changed from F: to G:

This trouble began this morning when I firsted turned on my laptop.

Do you have all the four partitions on a single hard drive?

No.

My C drive is internal to the laptop (SSD)

D drive is a recovery partition.

E drive is a WD Unlocker drive (possibly virtual?)

F drive is not displayed at all.

G drive is the former F drive External 1TB WD Passport

Do you have multiple hard drives installed on the computer?

Yes

Did you make any changes to your computer prior to the issue?

No, but I did relocate it from one site to another. The only configuration change was the addition of a monitor on the HDMI port.

Have you tried any troubleshooting steps so far?

Yes.

I unplugged the USB cable to the WD Passport drive and reconnected. It showed up again as the G drive

I Shut down and restarted. The WD Passport shows up as the G drive.