The last Win10 update caused my computer to not be able to show my hard drive in file explorer. It was listed in device manager just fine, but the partition was marked 'unallocated'. I used AOMEI partition assistant to recover the partition and everything is fine now. I mention this here in case it can help someone.
[QUOTE=chipsnapper2;50868988]Sounds like something Windows 2000 would do...[/QUOTE]
I thought I stepped back in time to 2002 and people were installing XP on FAT32 drives. :v:
[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;50873782]The last Win10 update caused my computer to not be able to show my hard drive in file explorer. It was listed in device manager just fine, but the partition was marked 'unallocated'. I used AOMEI partition assistant to recover the partition and everything is fine now. I mention this here in case it can help someone.[/QUOTE]
How did you make it usable? I had the same problem so I wiped the HDD and re-allocated the disk to D:/ using that software and I still can't seem to see it in the file explorer.
[QUOTE=Ishwoo;50874496]How did you make it usable? I had the same problem so I wiped the HDD and re-allocated the disk to D:/ using that software and I still can't seem to see it in the file explorer.[/QUOTE]
So I managed to set up the drive correctly last night but now I need to reinstall Windows every time I boot, for whatever reason it just doesn't recognise the previous installation
[QUOTE=Ishwoo;50877372]So I managed to set up the drive correctly last night but [U][I][B]now I need to reinstall Windows every time I boot[/B][/I][/U], for whatever reason it just doesn't recognise the previous installation[/QUOTE]
This is a pretty big indicator of Hard Drive failure if you haven't noticed already
[QUOTE=Michael haxz;50881705]This is a pretty big indicator of Hard Drive failure if you haven't noticed already[/QUOTE]
Or his partition table is just twelve kinds of fucked and he needs to DBAN the entire thing and start over.
But at that point it's just faster to buy a new drive anyway so v:v:v
[QUOTE=lavacano;50884206]Or his partition table is just twelve kinds of fucked and he needs to DBAN the entire thing and start over.[/QUOTE]
This too
I always forget that some people don't format when they reinstall windows, although I can't think of a decent reason why
[QUOTE=Ishwoo;50874496]How did you make it usable? I had the same problem so I wiped the HDD and re-allocated the disk to D:/ using that software and I still can't seem to see it in the file explorer.[/QUOTE]
Here's what I read, the update causes a hard drive's format to be seen as 'raw' instead of 'ntfs' by Windows. So device manager 'sees' the drive, but Windows can't read it. Therefore, in 'Computer management' under 'Disk management' that drive's partition will be labeled 'unallocated'. So all you need is a tool that will recover the perfectly usable partition that Windows update has mislabeled. I used the free download of AOMEI partition assistant and select the 'partition recovery' wizard. My 1tb hard drive was recovered in seconds.
One thing to note, everything on that drive got reset. By that I mean the way files are displayed goes back to default from whatever view you might have been using. Also the drive got labeled as the "D" drive from the "E" label I was using. This meant I had to change ALL environment paths and program references(like Steam) from using the E drive to using the D drive.
[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;50886622]Here's what I read, the update causes a hard drive's format to be seen as 'raw' instead of 'ntfs' by Windows. So device manager 'sees' the drive, but Windows can't read it. Therefore, in 'Computer management' under 'Disk management' that drive's partition will be labeled 'unallocated'. So all you need is a tool that will recover the perfectly usable partition that Windows update has mislabeled. I used the free download of AOMEI partition assistant and select the 'partition recovery' wizard. My 1tb hard drive was recovered in seconds.
One thing to note, everything on that drive got reset. By that I mean the way files are displayed goes back to default from whatever view you might have been using. Also the drive got labeled as the "D" drive from the "E" label I was using. This meant I had to change ALL environment paths and program references(like Steam) from using the E drive to using the D drive.[/QUOTE]
Why didn't you just go into disk management and change the drive letter?
I thought about just changing the drive letter but since I just had that big scare of losing all my data, then recovered it, I thought I should quit while i was ahead. i decided to leave everything as is and just change the paths and programs as I used them. Each time I got a 'target not found' or something I fixed it, and before I knew it everything was back to normal.
Btw, I also needed to grant permissions to programs to pass my firewall, since after the recovery everything on that drive is considered new. So any permissions will need to be redone if you have programs as well as data on there.
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