One of my drives disappeared from the left hand side pane of file explorer (see image).
It is categorised as a removable disk like the other HDDs and I used the registry hack found here Add or Remove Duplicate Drives in Navigation Pane in Windows 10
I can see this is a recurring issue that started some years ago but the old fix seems not to work.
Any help would be appreciated.
A actual drive or a Partition. What does it show in Device Manager, hidden devices? If you boot with a Linux Live DVD, what does it show in GPARTed?
It is an actual HDD.
Device Manager:
Gparted shows the missing drive with the flag: MSFTDATA, however another drive also has this flag so it's likely not the issue.
Hey Shag00,
What does Disk Management show? I'm wondering if it might be a drive letter conflict
Disk management shows what you would expect it to show. I have already tried changing the drive letter but no fix.
Here are some suggestions: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...-explorer-view
Also, what model# is your Canon Scanner? it requires a driver.
@spunk
the drive operates normally, I have run gsmartcontrol just to check, no errors at all. I have previously followed all the steps in the MS link. The drive does appear under the THIS PC "Library" it has just disappeared as a separate entry which it was prior to the upgrade. The scanner is OK, every MS update it wipes the scanner driver plus a few other things and I need to re-install them.
Just shooting in the dark. Try this no harm.
In Windows Disk Management disk map, rightclick on the Disk 2 icon on the left and make it offline. Toggle it back to online. ( You must reboot your PC after the toggle for the change to take effect )
Just in case the unique id of disk 1 and disk 2 or any other disk are the same , this should change the unique id of Disk 2.
Last edited by jumanji; 14 Dec 2017 at 12:08.
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