lost my F drive

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Richard Mitnick

I have an external hard drive that I use for mp3 files. It used to show up as
F:\New Volume in Windows Explorer. I recently did a major cleanup of this
computer, temps, registry, and defrag. Now, my F drive does not show up on
Windows Explorer.

Mind you, it is there and it works. When I launch a music file in WMP, Real,
or Winamp, the music plays, and it is all on this drive. Also, I did a search
on My Computer for "F:" and it came up. I quickly pulled a shortcut off to
the desktop so that I could access the drive. I just added files to it which
did show up in WMP as they are supposed to. But, I can not access the drive
in Windows Explorer.

How can I get the F drive to show up again in Windows Explorer?

Any help will be appreciated.
 
you could go to
admin tools, computer
management and then right
click on that disk/device
to explore.
 
I am there, in Disk Management, I see the drive. But how do I get it back
visibly in Windows Explorer? I described my work-around, but I know that the
drive should show in Windows Explorer as F:\New Volume. That is what I want
back.

Can you tell me how to get it back showing up in Windows Explorer?

Thanks.
 
Richard Mitnick said:
I am there, in Disk Management, I see the drive. But how do I get it back
visibly in Windows Explorer? I described my work-around, but I know that
the
drive should show in Windows Explorer as F:\New Volume. That is what I
want
back.

Can you tell me how to get it back showing up in Windows Explorer?

Thanks.
Click to expand...

Is it assigned a drive letter in Disk Management? If not, that's why it
doesn't show in Explorer. Right-click on it and choose Change Drive Letter
or Paths. Choose a letter, and you're done.

HTH
-pk
 
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