Windows 10: My laptop's secondary drive isn't showing anymore. How to fix it?

Discus and support My laptop's secondary drive isn't showing anymore. How to fix it? in Windows 10 Network and Sharing to solve the problem; My laptop has two internal drive ports. First one is m.2 port with WD green 240GB boot drive and other is SATA port with Crucial MX 500. Today, I was... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Network and Sharing' started by sanketmanna, Apr 16, 2023.

  1. SANKETMANNA
    sanketmanna Win User

    My laptop's secondary drive isn't showing anymore. How to fix it?


    My laptop has two internal drive ports. First one is m.2 port with WD green 240GB boot drive and other is SATA port with Crucial MX 500. Today, I was trying to install Visual studio community onto Crucial drive. Download and installing process failed twice and after that drive isn't showing anymore. I tried going to device manger and rescanning for disks, update drivers, restarting my pc few times.None of them works, after each restarting the disk appears as unknown drive in disk management and disappears if I try to rescan drives or anything. I tried going to Bios, it didn't have much optio

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    sanketmanna, Apr 16, 2023
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  2. TEKNOPHILE
    Teknophile Win User

    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.
     
    Teknophile, Apr 16, 2023
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  3. SIGURDUR WILLIAMBRYNJARSSON
    Sigurdur WilliamBrynjarsson Win User
    Printer isn´t working after latest update.

    After the latest update from Windows, my Canon Pixma ip6600 printer isnt working. In Device Manager it shows up as working properly but when I go to print it isn´t listed as an option in any programs. Troubleshoot suggests it´s a USB 2 printer on a USB
    3 port and that that´s the problem but that cant be since it worked fine before the update. I´ve tried to uninstall and plug it back in but that doesn´t work either.
     
    Sigurdur WilliamBrynjarsson, Apr 16, 2023
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  4. LAZZER408
    Lazzer408 Win User

    My laptop's secondary drive isn't showing anymore. How to fix it?

    help. USB drive isn't assigned a drive letter.

    Any usb flash drive I plug into my computer isn't assigned a drive letter. The physical drive shows in the "safely remove hardware" but it doesnt show up in disk management. I have tried to populate the volume thru the safely remove hardware properties window and it does pop up in the list but it doesn't stay there. This isn't a format or assign a letter problem. It's more complicated then that. Maybe one of the services needed for usb drive management was disabled? Suggestions needed. btw external usb harddrives work fine.
     
    Lazzer408, Apr 16, 2023
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