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After that, check if the down arrow is still there. Right-click on it and choose "Properties"> "View"tab. Locate the hard drive you want to enable.

If a drive is disabled, the disk drive will be marked with a down arrow. Type "devmgmt.msc" on the run box to open "Device Manager”. Press "Windows"+ "R" on the keyboard to activate run box. When the disk is disabled, follow the steps below to Enable it: If the drive has been disabled, the disk will be invisible in File Explorer. Make sure that the hard drive is enabled and online

At the DISKPART prompt, enter "assign letter=N" (N stands for the drive letter you want to assign)Ģ.

At the DISKPART prompt, enter "select volume n" (Select the volume whose drive letter you want to assign).

( mark down the number of the simple volume whose drive letter you want to assign)

At the DISKPART prompt, enter "list volume”.

If you can't finish the operation in Disk Management, you are able to run "cmd" to change or assign the drive letter. If it is, right-click the disk number and select Online. If the drive letter does not show on the drive, check if the drive is offline. Click "Add"> "OK" to pick out the available drive letter. In Disk Management, find out the unlabeled hard drive and right-click on it to choose "Change drive letter and paths." Provide an administrative passcode, if asked. Navigate to "Control Panel"> "System and Security"> "Administrative Tools”. In this case, you can try to assign a drive letter to the USB or external hard drive in Disk Management.

Sometimes, the drive might not have been assigned a drive letter by Windows so that USB or external hard drive cannot show on File Explorer but in Disk Management. Assign a Drive Letter to the USB/Hard Drive Tip: If your external hard drive shows in device manager but not disk management, you can directly move to the case 2. To fix the problem, please try following methods. Under this situation, it will be regarded as an unknown disk and shows the capacity to be 2048 GB in the Disk Management.

You may experience that your USB or external drive has been connected to the computer, but it is not showing in File Explorer or My Computer, but shows in Disk Management instead. Case 1: External hard drive shows up in disk management but not file explorer