Windows 10: Internal Hard Drive not showing up in explorer shows up in Disk Mgmt

Hello!

My disk was full of useless junk, so I decided to format it. It worked fine until earlier today, where when I booted up my pc, it vanished from explorer. "Odd", I thought. So I went to Disk Mgmt and formatted it again. It shows up as a healthy partition in Disk Mgmt but nothing comes up in Explorer. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!

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new win 10 dual drive pc - D:\ is not shown

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Post a screenshot of Disk Mgmt.

So are you satisfied with the Clean Install to the SSD? Does it perform well enough to keep?

If so then the issue is only the Data hard drive not showing up in Explorer even after reformatting? Have you tried swapping in another hard drive to test it?

 

Disks Not Found by Disk Manager

Only 3 of 4 internal hard drives found by Disk Manager. DVD/CD drive found, but none of the USB drives are found. Need to copy data back to the internal drive that is not found and does not show up in File Explorer. Please help.

 

It would love to have a drive letter allocated - then hopefully you will see it in explorer. Presently it's a bit lost and lonely...

 

If you use Disk Management to format it, don't accidentally have this option bullet-ed, make sure it is in fact going to assign a drive letter. Probably not your issue, but thought I'd bring it up as a possible.

 

You were right! Thank you so much.

 

*Thumbs Glad it was so simple! Reboot and make sure it's still there. Just a sanity check......

 

Yeah, looking at the image you provided, there's not a drive letter assigned, thus the reason you can't see it in explorer.

That said, you can manually assign one by right clicking the disk (blue sections) in Disk Manager, and selecting "Change Drive Letter and Paths" and then choose a drive letter...