Windows 10: Unable To Assign Letter To Disk Partition In Disk Management

Hi,


I Have An External Hard Disk and For Some Reason One Of Its Partitions Did Not Show Up In The Explorer So I Researched And Found Out That It Was Because There Was No Letter Assigned To It.


I Opened Up Disk Management And Tried To Assign A Letter To It But There was An Error Saying......





I Tried Other Software Like MiniTool Partition Wizard But That Didn't Help As well


I Thought That I Would Recover My Data From The inaccessible Partition And Then Format The Partition But The Software That I Was Using Only Allowed Me To Scan The Files whenever I Tried To Save The Scanned Files Onto Another Drive It Asked For Money...!!


Plz Help...........!!!

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Disk management console view is not up-to-date

i dont know how to fix your disk management, but i can fix your partition problems...




open up Command Prompt with admin rights. (Right click, run as admin)


enter in
DISKPART
list disk

then find the Disk number for your Raid array... lets call it number 7 ( you can tell what disk is what by the total size)
type in

Select Disk 7
List Partition (will give you a list of all the partitions..)
Select Partition 1 (im assuming you only have 1 partition on Disk 7) repeat this step if you have more partitions.
ASSIGN


that should get the array up and running ready to use.


EDITED.

any problems, post back ^^


Still EDITING *Stick Out Tongue

side question, have you tried restarting the PC?

 

Disk management console view is not up-to-date

Thanks but when I reach:

Select Partition 1 (im assuming you only have 1 partition on Disk 7) repeat this step if you have more partitions.
ASSIGN

I am unable to assign, I keep getting (Please select a Volume and try again)

My RAID array is DISK 1, and Partition 1 1192.09 Gb

 

Unable to assign/remove drive letters using disk-management

Prior to Win10/1803 it was possible to unhide hidden partitions (e.g. the system disks recovery partition) using Control Panel => Administrative Tools => Computer Management => Disk management => right-click on the partition and choosing "Assign or change
a drive letter".

I just tried that today and all the right-click menu offered was an entry "Help" - which was of no help...

I then started diskpart and was able to assign and remove drive letters to that partition (and other hidden ones) at will. Why is that functionality not properly working in disk-management anymore?