Windows 10 not Showing Any Info for External HDD

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  • Brandon_Byrnes
    PCHF Member
    • Jan 2017
    • 626

    #1

    Windows 10 not Showing Any Info for External HDD

    Iโ€™ve been using a external HDD for file storage for a while now. Up until this morning itโ€™s been working fine. Then this morning when I plugged in the external drive itโ€™s not showing up in This PC, I went to Disk Manager and it shows there but it doesnโ€™t have a drive letter assigned to it and its showing 100% free space on it. Iโ€™m not sure what is going on it was working fine yesterday. I do have quick-removal enabled so Iโ€™m thinking it canโ€™t be an error when i removed it. I did use a program called USB Safely Remove, to remove it yesterday, becuase Iโ€™ve been having trouble with Windows saying I canโ€™t remove external HDDโ€™s or flash drives becuase they are in use by another program. I force stopped it yesterday, to remove it, which Iโ€™ve done before and it always worked fine. Does anyone know what I can do to get it to show up in This PC, also did it somehow erase everything on the disk and if so is there a way for me to recover all my files?
  • Brandon_Byrnes
    PCHF Member
    • Jan 2017
    • 626

    #2
    Update: Iโ€™m an idiot nevermind I just had to assign a drive letter to it. I donโ€™t know why it didnโ€™t have a drive letter assigned already but whatever, it worked.

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    • veeg
      PCHF Director
      • Jul 2016
      • 8982

      #3
      Glad you got that sorted..

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