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Updated to 1703 and now can't access hard drives.
I just upgraded to the new Windows Creator's Edition. I previously tried the upgrade on my laptop and everything went smoothly. So I decided to upgrade my desktop (both are a little over a year old and configured similarly).
I have a second physical internal drive (my D drive) and a partition of the main C: drive (my W drive) that I am unable to access now. Both say "Local Disk" instead of the names I gave them and appear to still have their assigned drive letters but clicking on either gives me an "access denied" error.
I opened Disk Manager, which took an abnormally long time to load. I can see what I believe are the D and W drives but they have no drive letters assigned.
When I try to assign them each a letter, or even try to open their properties, I get:
I should mention that I have shortcuts on my desktop and start menu to several files/folders on the drives in question that will actually open when I click on them and I can work with them normally. I can also open them by typing their drive letters in the Windows search bar. I just can't seem to access the drives directly.
Can anyone please help me out?