Windows 10: HDD Disappeared from File Explorer after upgrade to Ver 1709

One of my drives disappeared from the left hand side pane of file explorer (see image).





It is categorised as a removable disk like the other HDDs and I used the registry hack found here Add or Remove Duplicate Drives in Navigation Pane in Windows 10
I can see this is a recurring issue that started some years ago but the old fix seems not to work.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Huawei E3372 LTE USB Stick not working

After upgrading to Windows 10 ver 1709

[Moved from: Windows / Windows 10 / Install, upgrade, & activate]

 

Upgrade from Ver 1703 to Ver 1709

Hi Vedran,

Conflicts with the Windows Updates settings is one of the possible reasons why you're having issues with installing the update. But before we proceed in resolving this, I'd like to know if you're getting any error messages when installing the update.

In the meantime, I would suggest that you run the provided troubleshooting steps below:

• Fix Windows Update errors
• Windows Update troubleshooter

If the given troubleshooting steps didn't work the way it should, then I recommend that you
perform a repair upgrade. This is a process of installing
Windows 10 over the existing installation of Windows 10 on your hard disk, using your installation DVD or ISO file. Performing this can repair broken operating system files while preserving your personal files, settings and installed applications. To do so,
follow the steps provided by Andre Da Costa through this link.

Should you need further assistance, please don't hesitate to post back.

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A actual drive or a Partition. What does it show in Device Manager, hidden devices? If you boot with a Linux Live DVD, what does it show in GPARTed?

 

It is an actual HDD.

Device Manager:




Gparted shows the missing drive with the flag: MSFTDATA, however another drive also has this flag so it's likely not the issue.

 

Hey Shag00,
What does Disk Management show? I'm wondering if it might be a drive letter conflict

 

Disk management shows what you would expect it to show. I have already tried changing the drive letter but no fix.

 

Here are some suggestions: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...-explorer-view
Also, what model# is your Canon Scanner? it requires a driver.

 

@spunk
the drive operates normally, I have run gsmartcontrol just to check, no errors at all. I have previously followed all the steps in the MS link. The drive does appear under the THIS PC "Library" it has just disappeared as a separate entry which it was prior to the upgrade. The scanner is OK, every MS update it wipes the scanner driver plus a few other things and I need to re-install them.

 

Just shooting in the dark. Try this no harm.

In Windows Disk Management disk map, rightclick on the Disk 2 icon on the left and make it offline. Toggle it back to online. ( You must reboot your PC after the toggle for the change to take effect )

Just in case the unique id of disk 1 and disk 2 or any other disk are the same , this should change the unique id of Disk 2.

 

HDD offline/online and reboot had no effect.