Windows 10: Usb hard drive has a different drive letter and is not seen by laptops.

I have a usb hard drive that is attached to my router and uses R: on a desktop as its drive letter. However on 2 laptops it uses S:. How do I get the laptops to see and communicate with the hard drive?

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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.

 

Hard Disk Drive (HDD) seen as Solid State Drive in Optimize Drives

Hi Joshua,

Which hard drive is an external and internal?

Did you checked the hard drive is visible when you go to This PC?

I suggest you to type diskmgmt.msc in the start search and hit enter.

Check if you can see both hard drives.

You may also uninstall and then reconnect the external hard drive and check.

This method resolves issues where the currently loaded USB driver has become unstable or corrupt.

• Click Start, type Device Manager in the Search
  box
• Click Device Manager from the returned list.
• Click Disk Drives from the list of hardware
• Right-click the USB external hard drive with the issue, and click Uninstall.
• After the hard drive is uninstalled, unplug the USB cable.
• Wait for 1 minute and then reconnect the USB cable. The driver should automatically load
• Check for the USB drive in Windows Explorer.

Please update us with the status. We will be glad to assist you.

 

External Hard Drive is not getting recognized properly.

Hi,

Thanks for reply.

Connect your external hard drive to a different USB and check if that helps. Also connect the hard dive to a different pc and check are you able to access the files.

Method 1: To check if the hard drive is visible in Disk management.

1. Press Windows Key + R and type devmgmt.msc

2. Check if your hard drive is listed.

Method 2: I suggest you to try changing the drive letter of the drive and check if it helps.


Follow the steps to change the drive letter:

a. Press Windows + X keys and click on
Disk Management.

b. Right click on the external drive and click on Change Drive letter and paths.

c. Click on Change the button.

d. Under Assign the following Drive letter, select the desired drive letter.

e. Click Ok to save changes.

Hope it helps. If you need further assistance with Windows, let us know and will be glad to help.

Thanks