{"id":16079,"date":"2021-08-28T14:41:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T13:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/?p=16079"},"modified":"2021-08-28T14:41:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T13:41:02","slug":"harddisk-or-usb-drive-not-shown-in-windows-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/16079\/harddisk-or-usb-drive-not-shown-in-windows-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Harddisk or USB drive not shown in Windows Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your USB drive or hard disk, SSD or other internal storage does not show up in Windows?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Usually, if you connect a drive to your computer, the drive gets automatically assigned a drive letter by Windows. Then you can access it via the Explorer. However, that is not always the case.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/64feaSO1BOw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I connected a SSD via USB to my computer, but the drive does not show up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/drive_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"193\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/drive_1.png 705w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/drive_1-300x82.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Both C and E are my local drives (both with different Windows versions). A drive not showing up, can have different causes. For example, the drive can be corrupt. But in most cases Windows did not assign a drive letter to the device. <\/p>\n<p>To check this, we open the &#8220;Disk Management&#8221; by right-clicking on the start menu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/drive_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"268\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9383\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Disk Management shows all drives and disks connected to our computer. In our case, we have two internal drives and the third one, which did not have a drive letter assigned.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/drive_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"788\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/drive_3.png 788w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/drive_3-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/drive_3-768x341.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now we only have to right-click on the partition\/drive and &#8220;Change Drive letter and Paths&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/drive_4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"227\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/drive_4.png 533w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/drive_4-300x128.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now we only have to add a new drive letter and click OK.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/drive_5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"420\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/drive_5.png 539w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/drive_5-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new drive should be shown in the explorer now.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/drive_6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1054\" height=\"265\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/drive_6.png 1054w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/drive_6-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/drive_6-1024x257.png 1024w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/drive_6-768x193.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1054px) 100vw, 1054px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>The drive is not shown in Disk Management<\/h2>\n<p>If the drive is not shown in the Disk Management tool, check if the drive is working properly or has enough power.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your USB drive or hard disk, SSD or other internal storage does not show up in Windows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[1558],"class_list":["post-16079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-windows-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}