Unable to access 3TB backup driver after Windows 8 re-install

jrodga2k5

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Hi all,

Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction or give me some pointers here as I've never really experienced this before.

I have been using a WD 3TB drive as my main backup drive for a while now and using a 512 SSD drive as my main Windows install. I conducted a fresh install of Windows 8 earlier and now I can't access the WD 3TB drive in Windows.

The bios recognises it and even Disk Management in Windows can 'see it' however it is showing as a 'Storage Pool' and after the Healthy part it reads (Storage Spaces Protective Partition).

I've scoured the net but can't really nail down a solution to this exact issue as I don't want to lose the information on the disk I just want to be able to access the information on it.

Does anyone have any advice/solutions? Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers
 
Unfortunately mrk the last backup is probably a year old which is when I installed the HDD in the first place to use for storage only. So I will lose a fair bit which is definitely unfortunate...however I have never experienced this issue previously and I am totally dumbfounded as to how it could happen especially when it was essentially a re-install of Windows and everything worked fine beforehand.

@Gamble I can't see it on Windows Explorer and no Drive Letter is assigned to it. It only shows on Disk Management as detailed in the OP.
 
can you set a drive letter in disk management?

right click on the drive and click on "change drive letters and paths"
 
jrodga2k5 said:
Unfortunately mrk the last backup is probably a year old which is when I installed the HDD in the first place to use for storage only. So I will lose a fair bit which is definitely unfortunate...however I have never experienced this issue previously and I am totally dumbfounded as to how it could happen especially when it was essentially a re-install of Windows and everything worked fine beforehand.

@Gamble I can't see it on Windows Explorer and no Drive Letter is assigned to it. It only shows on Disk Management as detailed in the OP.
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That will be the issue - I have a second HDD and mine does the same after a fresh install.

Assign a drive letter to it and it will appear for you
 
ED209 said:
can you set a drive letter in disk management?

right click on the drive and click on "change drive letters and paths"
Click to expand...

That's what I could do previously however it won't allow me to do so. The "change drive letters and paths" option is greyed out on the right click option with only conver to dynamic disk available.

@andshrew If I remember correctly I just partitioned the drive in the normal way through Disk Management to begin with.

It's showing as 'storage pool' rather than any kind of drive description.
 
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