Windows 10: Why would a HDD have no letter associated with it after 10 upgrade?

Hey,

Just sort of curious, I noticed that in disk management that I had 4 drives listed

C:
GAMES (H
STORAGE (F
HONDA AND VOLVO (D

But then there was another drive simply listed as "GAMES".
I always thought it was just some screw up and a duplicate of the H drive (since they both are named as "GAMES") which has games on it but the odd part was that it didn't have a drive letter associated with it after the upgrade to 10.

So I assigned a drive letter to it (A and looked into it in File Explorer and it's definitely a physical drive as the info is all there and not a duplicate of the H drive.

It was a listed drive in Windows 7 so wondering why the drive letter was removed during the Windows 10 upgrade.

Any clues? I know it's an odd situation, but maybe somebody else has also experienced this.

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"This file doesn't have a program associated with it for performing......". Error message when trying to get task manager, and command prompt, after a three hour windows update.

Thanks for all your help. However, I am still not understanding what may have happened. First, why did the automatic windows update take more than three or four hours to download and install? Second, what could have caused my computer to run so slowly
after the install......at least for a long period of time? It was almost as if after my windows desktop screen finally appeared (after 30-60 min), there was something still being installed, or running, which taxed my resources so that everything ran some
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"This file doesn't have a program associated with it for performing......". Error message when trying to get task manager, and command prompt, after a three hour windows update.

Thank you for sharing the resolution that worked for you. This will help other Community members who are having the same issue. Should you need further assistance or have other concerns, feel free to share your thoughts with us.

Regards.

 

Could you post images off your Disk Management and This PC, windows? Thanks

 

Yes, screen shot of disk management please. There are some hidden system partitions that don't get assigned a drive letter. This by design. Sounds like one of those might have accidentally gotten renamed to games.