In the illustration above it is clear that we have 3 physical drives connected to the machine. In the disk manager you can see both the physical and the logical hard drives connected to the computer. This will open up an area that will allow you to see all the mass storage devices connected to your computer. If you click on your Windows start button and then look for “Computer”, right click on it and then click on manage.Ī program should open called Computer Management.Ĭlick on “Disk Management” under the Storage heading. I always try to ascertain if that is actually what is occurring or if it is more that the drive no longer has a drive letter attached to it. Generally, I get phone calls where the customer states that the computer is no longer seeing their hard drive. The hard drive is not showing up in “My Computer” or in Windows Explorer (not to be confused with internet explorer). In this blog I explain a common Computer Data Recovery problem that many PC users find themselves plagued with.
