DRIVE WONT SHOWcant assign letter to drive

coool121212 · Sep 27, 2013

okay, so I had 2 drives (C and E) so the C drive failed and I had to re-install windows 8
nothing was wrong with my second drive (which has ALOT of important data).

when I re-installed windows 8, the drive wasn't in "my computer", so I went over to disk management to assign a letter to it, but the problem is that it shows its 100% empty when there certainly are files on it (I used EaseUS software to confirm).

when I right click, all the options are in grey, I cant do anything with it :S it is shown up as "EFI SYSTEM PARTITION" what does this mean? is there any way I can still use this drive without formatting?

drtweak · Sep 27, 2013

This is strange indeed.

Try taking out the drive again then restart. Then try putting it in a different port. I've never seen this happen before nor can I find out anything on this issue.

coool121212 · Sep 27, 2013

drtweak :

I tryed but, nothing

BUT i did make some progress

I went into cmd, typed:
diskpart
list disk
select disk 1
list volume
select volume 4

then, i tryed "assign E"
nothing, but thgn i tryed
"assign letter E"
and it worked! - it showed in my computer:

BUT as i clicked it this happened:

idk

popatim · Sep 28, 2013

Since you are very close perhaps a nudge is all you need to complete your journey http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490934.aspx
Some people dont like digging for their own answers but it seems like you might be different, you keep trying things
S is what these sentences start with, perhaps its another clue. LoL

coool121212 · Sep 28, 2013

popatim :

Okay, so i typed it in cmd (admin mode obviously)

C:\Windows\system32>MOUNTVOL DISK 1 /S
Creates, deletes, or lists a volume mount point.

MOUNTVOL [drive:]path VolumeName
MOUNTVOL [drive:]path /D
MOUNTVOL [drive:]path /L
MOUNTVOL [drive:]path /P
MOUNTVOL /R
MOUNTVOL /N
MOUNTVOL /E

path Specifies the existing NTFS directory where the mount
point will reside.
VolumeName Specifies the volume name that is the target of the mount
point.
/D Removes the volume mount point from the specified directory.
/L Lists the mounted volume name for the specified directory.
/P Removes the volume mount point from the specified directory,
dismounts the volume, and makes the volume not mountable.
You can make the volume mountable again by creating a volume
mount point.
/R Removes volume mount point directories and registry settings
for volumes that are no longer in the system.
/N Disables automatic mounting of new volumes.
/E Re-enables automatic mounting of new volumes.

Possible values for VolumeName along with current mount points are:

\\?\Volume{d31052bc-27b3-11e3-be6a-6c626dbed844}\
*** NO MOUNT POINTS ***

\\?\Volume{d31052bd-27b3-11e3-be6a-6c626dbed844}\
C:\

\\?\Volume{27281e11-27ce-11e3-be69-806e6f6e6963}\
D:\

\\?\Volume{570744f3-27c0-11e3-be66-806e6f6e6963}\
G:\

still the same thing on "my computer"

drtweak · Sep 28, 2013

well the problem here isn't mounting it. Its set as an EFI partition which is where windows usually keeps its Boot info.

So the question is 1) WHY did it change and 2) How to change it back. When I first posted back i couldn't find anything about this issue happeneing.

You getting the Access Denied and unable to give it a drive letter is totally normal because windows sees it as a EFI parition. So that is what we need to try to do here. Try to get it back to NTFS with out losing any data. that is if you haven't lost it already. have you tired plugging it into another PC?

coool121212 · Sep 28, 2013

drtweak :

i havnt put it in any other computer cause this is the only desktop that supports this drive size.
do you think it has boot files because of my previous installation? my previous version of windows 8 could have had it boot files there.

is there any way that i can delete these files using software? because EaseUS can see the files, but i cant delete any. (also will deleting the "BOOT" folder fix this problem? or is it more complicated then that?

*update*

i deleted all the boot files, there's this program called eraser, that for some reason could access the drive, but the main explorer could not, anyway i went into the boot folder and deleted it with "unlocker" because normal delete couldn't do it (everything still looks the same in disk management btw)

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