Windows Disk Drive Not Showing Up

Here s one instance where you might encounter the windows 10 hard drive not showing right clicking this pc and selecting manage go to disk management and find the hard drive missing or showing up as not initialized and unallocated space.

Windows disk drive not showing up.

To do so you first need to pull up the windows disk management tool. Check if disk. Hard drive won t appear in file explorer bios or pc. Type diskmgmt msc into the box and press enter.

External hard drives may also not be included in the list especially when the drive becomes corrupted or damaged. The external hard drive does not appear. Press windows logo key and r to open run dialog box type devmgmt msc and click ok button. If the internal hard drive is nowhere to be found the problem may be due to a connection issue.

The hard drive not showing up issue might be caused by corrupted or incompatible drivers and you can update drivers manually like this. Step 1 open device manager. Press windows r on your keyboard to launch the run dialog box. Assuming that the hard drive is installed properly and is not by some horrible dumb luck defective out of the gate bringing it online is a very simple process.

Let s try these steps to.