Drive letters all gone!

mark2410 · 15 Mar 2020 at 16:21

So, i updated the sata drivers and then boom, all my sata drives no longer have drive letters and all just show as "unallocated" space. Help!!! what can i do to recover them, i want to try just renaming the drive but worry that will then format the thing.

btw all the drives seem healthy os im protty sure it was the sata driver that borked everything

Mcnumpty2323 · 15 Mar 2020 at 16:34

Try using disk management to allocate them letters

EsaT · 15 Mar 2020 at 16:34

You could try driver roll back.
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-roll-back-device-driver-windows-10

Or system restore to before update.

mark2410 · 15 Mar 2020 at 17:44

just tired system restore, it failed and now tells me there are no restore points. just gave one drive a letter but cant access, just tell me it needs to be formatted.

help!

b00merang69 · 15 Mar 2020 at 17:46

Read this (not saying it is same issue) .

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/hard-drives-showing-as-raw.18875566/#post-33282241

mark2410 · 15 Mar 2020 at 18:11

partition wizard found the partition, restored it but i still cant access the data, what the F??? what am i doing wrong??

b00merang69 · 15 Mar 2020 at 18:19

I will have another think after I core back from walk/ local shop as it closes at 7pm on Sundays.