Windows 10: My external hard drive isnt showing in file explorer but is showing in disk management

I'm not sure what to do as ive plugged it into multiple different usb ports

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My external hard drive isnt showing in file explorer but is showing in disk management

Hello, how are you?

Does this disk have any important files?

Was it used through the Windows Storage Spaces Manager for some reason?

Check if you can add a drive letter to that partition so it shows up in Windows Explorer.

In Disk Manager, right-click on that disk's partition and select "Change drive letter and path", click on the Add button and choose a letter, after that click on Ok.

Make sure the disk appears in Windows Explorer.

 

Hard drive showing up in disk management but not in file explorer

So I just finished building my new computer and I put a 2 tb firecuda sshd in it. I boute windows fine on my ssd and my hard drive showed up in the BIOS but it didn't show up in file explorer. I went to disk management and formatted it to be a basic drive
but it's still not showing up in file explorer.

 

external hard drive showing up in device management but not disk management

Hi,

I recently tried to use a brand new Seagate 2TB External HD, but it is not showing up. It initially showed up, but after I tried reformatting it to exFAT32, it disappeared from the disk management list.

I then tried:

• refreshing the disk management list,
• inserting into a different USB port,
• re-starting my computer, and
• uninstalling the device from device manager/letting it refresh,

I still can't see it. There is no yellow error in the USB controller list.

I'm on Windows 10.

Intel i5-3317U @ 1.7GHz

Any suggestions? Thanks!