How to see hidden hard drives in Windows 7?

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My computer has 2 bootable hard drives. One has Windows 7 and the other has Ubuntu. When I'm running in Windows I can't see the other (Ubuntu) hard drive in Windows Explorer. I'd like to be able to access my Ubuntu hard drive when running Windows so I can transfer files back and forth. Anybody know a way to make that other drive show up in Windows Explorer?

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"when you pc is on an running windows os do you see in computers folder the hard drive of Ubuntu, if not have you tried the computer management. to see if the Hard Drive is shown there"


I don't see the Ubuntu drive in the Windows "My Computer" folder. I've can see the drive computer management/disk management, but when I try to assign it a drive "letter" it doesn't allow it. The option to assign it a drive letter is greyed out, and my only options are to delete the drive or make it a dynamic drive. I think making it a dynamic drive would allow me to assign it a letter, and then it would show the drive in the "My Computer" folder. However, if I try to make it a dynamic drive, I get an error saying the drive doesn't have enough free space, which doesn't make sense because it's a 500gb SSD and all it has on it is the Ubuntu operating system and a few extra programs.

 
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