Have you ever met such a problem that the computer hard drive failed to show up in the File Explorer on Windows 10 PC?
If the Disk Management cannot detect the hard drive, what can you do to make it show up again?
Does anyone know how to make the HDD hard drive to show up and detectable in BIOS? Windows won't boot from the HDD since BIOS doesn't read and detect it.
So how to repair and fix HDD not showing up issue in Windows 10, 8 or 7? Just follow fixes here below to fix the HDD undetectable or not showing up in Windows Disk Management, BIOS or File Explorer problem right now.
When the bad sectors or corrupted file system exist on storage devices, they would not be able to show up nor work properly on your PC.
Here you may directly connect the hard drive to a new Windows PC as external storage and apply powerful partition manager software - Qiling Partition Master for help.
Step 1. Right-click the target partition that has a problem.
Step 2. Choose "Advanced" > "Check File System".
Step 3. In the Check File System window, check the "Fix the error on the disk" option.
Step 4. Click "Proceed" to check errors on your partition.
If the Windows fails to boot from HDD, you may first check whether the BIOS has detected the hard drive. If not, follow steps here in the below to fix this issue and make your hard drive detectable in BIOS again:
1. Remove and reconnect the hard drive to your PC with the data cable port.
2. Restart your PC and press F2 to enter BIOS.
3. Enter Setup and check system documentation to see if the drive is turned Off in System Setup or not.
4. If it's Off, turn it ON and Reboot PC.
1. Right-click Start and select Device Manager.
2. Enter Device Manager, expand categories to find the HDD which won't show up in BIOS.
3. Right-click on the HDD and select Update Driver > Select Search automatically for updated driver software.
Or you can right-click on the HDD and select Uninstall to let the computer automatically re-install the latest drivers for your hard drive.
4. If Windows doesn't find a new driver for your HDD, you may try and find one on the device manufacturer's website.
5. Reboot PC to keep all changes.
If the HDD fails to show up in the Disk Management on your computer, follow the below tips:
1. Press Win + R keys to bring up Run dialog and type: diskmgmt.msc, hit Enter.
2. Find your HDD hard drive and right-click on it, select Change Drive Letter and Paths.
3. Assign a new drive letter to replace the old one for your hard drive and click OK to keep all changes.
1. Right-click on Start and select Control Panel, click on Troubleshooting.
2. Find Hardware and Sound in the right pane, and click Configure a device.
3. Run as Administrator and click Next to run Troubleshooter.
4. Click Apply this fix if any issues or errors exist.
After this, restart the computer and HDD will show up in Disk Management on your Windows 10 PC by then.
If the hard drive is a brand new disk, you need to initialize it first. Here we'd like to recommend you follow this tutorial - how to initialize HDD/SSD to make the HDD detectable on your PC with the help of Qiling Partition Master Free.
After making HDD detected on the computer, your next move is to create a partition in Windows Disk Management:
1. Enter Disk Management and right-click on unallocated space, select New Simple Volume.
2. Set the partition size, drive letter and file system by following guidelines on the New Simple Volume Wizard.
3. Click Finish to complete the process.
Or you can use Qiling Partition Master Free to create a new partition on your hard drive:
Step 1. Launch Qiling Partition Master. On the main window, right-click on the unallocated space on your hard drive or external storage device and select "Create".
Step 2. Adjust the partition size, file system (Choose the file system based on your need), label, etc. for the new partition and click "OK" to create a new partition.
To make the HDD usable for saving data again, you can right-click to format the partitions on HDD which was not showing up in Windows 10.
1. Right-click This PC/My Computer and select Manage.
2. Click Disk Management in Device Manager, right-click on the HDD hard drive partitions and select Format volume to reset hard drive to save data again.
By formatting HDD, you'll wipe all useless data and clear all data entries on the drive. You can save data on the hard drive again now.