Hello everybody!
This video will show you what to do if one
of hard disk partitions is not shown in the
Explorer after reinstalling Windows, or if
you installed a new hard disk in your computer
and it is not shown too, though you can see
it in BIOS.
So, let’s begin.
Right-click on the Start menu and select Disk
Management from the menu that appears.
If you have a missing partition on your hard
disk, check if there are any unallocated areas
there, or an area which is allocated already
but it doesn’t have any drive letter.
Sometimes the disk contains some data but
there is no letter assigned to it.
That is why do not hurry to take any action
to avoid losing this data.
At first make sure that this area is not “unallocated”
but it is, for example, an NTFS disk.
In this case, you just need to assign a drive
letter.
To do it, right-click on this area.
In this case, the menu should have a line
saying “Change drive letter or path.”
Click Add.
Choose the drive letter.
In our case, that is disk D. Click OK.
Check it.
Disk D can be seen in the Explorer now.
If this is still some unallocated space, then
click on it and choose from the menu “Create
a simple volume.”
Then click Next.
Set the volume size; by default, all available
size is set.
Then click Next.
Assign a drive letter (in our case, let E
remain).
Click Next.
Leave all settings as they are because for
modern versions of Windows operating system,
NTFS is the optimal choice.
Click Next.
Now click Ready and wait for a while.
Disk E appears in the Explorer.
But if you installed a new hard disk in your
computer and it is not shown in the Explorer,
you should go to the Disk Management utility
and check if the system has an uninitialized
disk as in this example.
In this case, right-click on this area and
choose to initialize disk
Select the partition type.
It’s either MBR or GPT.
I’d recommend choosing GPT if you have a
modern computer with UEFI; if your computer
doesn’t support UEFI or you don’t know
it for sure, then choose MBR.
Click OK.
The disk is initialized but it will not be
shown in the Explorer anyway because there
is an unallocated area there.
To initialize it, right-click on such area
and select “Create a simple volume.”
Then we do the same things as we did in the
previous example.
As a result, disk F appears in the Explorer.
I hope this information was useful for you.
Thanks for watching.
