Hard drive not showing up in the navigation pane..??

Edwin · 15 Jun 2016

angelleye said:

The drives show up just fine in general and everything works fine. They just don't show up in that one spot that I pointed out in File Explorer like they always did for me before I did this clean install. Now only 1 of the 3 shows up there for some reason.

If you type explorer shell:::{a6482830-08eb-41e2-84c1-73920c2badb9} into a Run box, those should be the only drives deemed as Removable, (Delegate), folders.

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orlbuckeye · 15 Jun 2016

Well the key thing is what happens when you try to access drive D by double clicking? Does it access it or do you get an error? That information would help alot.

angelleye · 16 Jun 2016

Edwin said:

If you type explorer shell:::{a6482830-08eb-41e2-84c1-73920c2badb9} into a Run box, those should be the only drives deemed as Removable, (Delegate), folders.

This shows me all of my actual removable drives, but also includes the E:/ drive, which is a SATA drive like the ones that aren't showing up. Also, again, all 3 SATA drives showed up as removable before the clean install. Now only the one that was plugged in during the clean install is showing up as removable.

Seems that SATA drives plugged in during a clean install get considered removable, but after that they don't..??

angelleye · 16 Jun 2016

orlbuckeye said:

Well the key thing is what happens when you try to access drive D by double clicking? Does it access it or do you get an error? That information would help alot.

I have mentioned a few times now that the drives work perfectly fine. They simply don't show up in the removable drive spot like they did previously, and I kinda liked having them there.

It's also just interesting to me that as of now 1 of 3 SATA drives is showing up as removable. Why that one?

Brink · 16 Jun 2016

Is there any difference between the SATA ports they are connected to on the motherboard? For example, one connected to an Intel SATA port, and the other 2 to Marvell SATA ports.

If so, see if having them connected to the same type of ports as the one showing as removable.

Identifying the SATA Ports on Your Desktop Board

Slartybart · 16 Jun 2016

Brink said:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4675-drives-navigation-pane-add-remove-windows-10-a.html

angelleye, Did you try Brink's other suggestion?

You might have to toggle the Nav pane presentation

- remove drives from the Nav pane,
- restart File Explorer,
- add drives to the Nav pane,
- restart File Explorer.

Kbird · 16 Jun 2016

Brink said:

Is there any difference between the SATA ports they are connected to on the motherboard? For example, one connected to an Intel SATA port, and the other 2 to Marvel lSATA ports.

If so, see if having them connected to the same type of ports as the one showing as removable.

Identifying the SATA Ports on Your Desktop Board

That's a good thought my x58 MB also has JMicron Sata Ports ( and intel and Marvel) and if the wrong Driver is installed for them , all drives connect to that Controller, show as removable as the driver tell windows they are Esata Drives not Sata Drives.