driver letter not showing in my computer after hiding SOME drives in disk managment

matpro

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Feb 14, 2015
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I have a very weird issue going on...

I use disk management to hide some drives avoiding access to anyone...

I've been using disk management to hide only drive but as soon as I hide the drive my other drives in my computer goes missing...


I can access all drives from Disk Management but no drive letter showing in my computer...

a few days earlier my computer was only one disk and its partition but now it hid all the drives


also when i restart the system all the drives are visible but as soon as I hide or unhide any of the partition the same problem occurs again...


I am not willing to reinstall the os just for this problem as except this the system is working perfectly fine...

pls help...



 
Hey there, matpro!

Can you please share a screenshot from your Disk Management and My Computer to see how exactly the HDDs appear?
I guess you could try assigning a different drive letter to the disappearing HDD. However, keep in mind that this might result in data loss of the files stored on that drive, so make sure you do a backup first.
Check this tutorial that explains how to perform this: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=urGy7S

Keep me posted with the results! :)
SuperSoph_WD