Very strange issue

Semple · 24 Sep 2014 at 20:24

I've recently installed 2 new hard drives, and i've noticed in "My Computer" all secondary hard drives apart from C: have vanished. Now i can confirm this isn't a hardware issue, as the drives are visible from within "Computer Management" and they are accessible along with files intact and readable. So something is preventing windows from displaying the drives within my computer.

Anyone seen similar issues? - running windows 8.

Don't particularly want to reinstall the O/S, i may do an upgrade to 8.1 though.

KIA · 25 Sep 2014 at 15:49

Do they have drive letters assigned?

On Holiday · 25 Sep 2014 at 15:50

Likely to be the above tbh, if you're not sure how to check/create letters;

Start -> Type: Create and format hard disk partitions -> Right click volume -> Change drive letters and paths.

Semple · 2 Oct 2014 at 12:57

Forgot I created this thread. Yep drive letters have always been assigned, whatever the error may have been seems to have fixed itself as all drives are visible again now. So i can't see if something had removed a drive letter.