Windows 10: How do I get a hard drive to be recognized by File Explorer WITHOUT formatting or wiping it?

I am trying to connect a WD2500BEVS 250gb 5.4k drive to my Win10 pc. It is connected via SATA to my Z490 UD AC-Y1 mobo. Disk Management recognizes it was a Basic, Online drive with two healthy partitions, one of which is marked as active. When right clicking on the disk in Disk Management, the only available options are: Convert to Dynamic Disk, Offline, Properties, and Help.When right clicking on either of the partitions, the only available options are: Delete Volume, Help.I do not want to destroy any data on the drive. How do I get it to show up in File Explorer?

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Hard Drive not being recognized on file explorer

I had an old laptop and removed the hard drive and made it an external HDD. I set it up and everything was good. However, after a while, it stopped working and doesnt show up in explorer anymore. I have tried new cables and new enclosures, nothing works. The hard drive still revs when plugged in and can be seen on Device Management.

I have tried to initialize it in the disk management and it didn't work. Now the option is greyed out. I think it is offline but when i try to change that I get "The request failed due to a fatal device hardware error". I don't know what else to do. I would really like some help on this.

 

Windows 10 1909 Causes Secondary Hard Drive to not be Recognized

Installing the Windows 10 1909 Update causes my secondary hard drive to not be recognized.

Steps to confirm issue:

• Secondary drive not visible in Windows Explorer
• Secondary drive not visible in device manager
• Secondary drive not visible in disk manager

Steps to replicate issue:

• Installing 1909 update

Steps to resolve issue:

• Uninstall 1909 update

Since updates can only be delayed for so long, an actual fix would be appreciated.

 

saving and viewing files on an external hard drive

Hi Sam,

We appreciate you for being part of Windows 10.

Yes, you may format the external hard drive. Follow the below steps.

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  Connect the external hard drive to Windows 10 computer.
  
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  Press Windows + E keys on the keyboard to the keyboard to open the file explorer.
  
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  Locate the external hard drive on left navigation pane in File explorer.
  
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  Right click on the external hard drive and click on
  Format.
  
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  Click Start and follow on screen instructions to format the hard drive.
  

I hope the above information helps. Kindly let us know if you need any further assistance with Windows. We are glad to assist you.

Thank you.