Disk not visible in My computer, still accessible

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antsson

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I have 6 domain connected computers, they all have an extra 4 TB disk in them.
The disks have been assigned to Q: on all computers. (There is no network drive assigned to Q:\)

On 4 of these computer the drive is not visible in my computer.
I am however able to access the drive by writing Q: in the address bar.
On the other 2 computer the Q: drive is visible.

Everything looks OK to me in disk management and I have unassigned the disk from Q: and set the drive to Q: again but the issue remains.

The disks are synced with Dropbox and I really want to avoid wiping the disks since it takes forever to sync 4 TB with Dropbox.

Suggestions on how to make the drives visible are very appreciated.

Thanks
 
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This solved it:
It is possible to hide (or unhide) drives in Explorer using Group Policy or Registry. If such a thing had happened on all computers, I'd have suggested you to inspect your domain policies to see if a group policy is enforced on them, but seeing as you have this problem only on 4 computers I suggest you do the following on all four:

Open Registry Editor by pressing Windows+R key combination, typing regedit and pressing Enter.
Using the left pane, go to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer (First open HKEY_CURRENT_USER, then Software, then Microsoft, etc.)
In the right pane, look for a parameter called "NoDrives". If you see it, delete it. enter image description...
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antsson

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Dec 7, 2016
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This solved it:
It is possible to hide (or unhide) drives in Explorer using Group Policy or Registry. If such a thing had happened on all computers, I'd have suggested you to inspect your domain policies to see if a group policy is enforced on them, but seeing as you have this problem only on 4 computers I suggest you do the following on all four:

Open Registry Editor by pressing Windows+R key combination, typing regedit and pressing Enter.
Using the left pane, go to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer (First open HKEY_CURRENT_USER, then Software, then Microsoft, etc.)
In the right pane, look for a parameter called "NoDrives". If you see it, delete it. enter image description here
Restart Windows

http://superuser.com/questions/1154832/disk-not-visible-in-my-computer-still-accessible
 
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