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Window 10 Recognizes USB devices but does not mount it with a drive letter.

Anonymous
2017-12-17T00:51:41+00:00

I did try several solution like:

diskpart autmount enable

restart in safemode 

disable antivirus

unistall usb drivers from device manager

the diskmanager list the external hdd but do not let me assign letter:

Any hero to help me out?

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  1. Greg Carmack 24,745 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2017-12-17T00:57:45+00:00

    Hi Leonardo. I'm Greg, a volunteer installation specialist and 8 year Windows MVP, here to help you.

    Type CMD in Start Search, right click Command Prompt to Run as Admin, paste these Commands each followed by Enter:

    DISKPART

    LIST DISK

    SEL DIS # (replace # with the external drive number)

    LIST PART

    SEL PART # (replace # with the external's partition number)

    ASSIGN

    EXIT

    If that fails install free Partition Wizard, right click external to Assign a Drive Letter. http://www.partitionwizard.com/download.html

    If that fails and drive is empty, delete it's partition in PW, run Surface Scan to find it's condition, then Create a New NTFS Logical Partition, assign a letter. https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/...

    I hope this helps. Feel free to ask back any questions and let us know how it goes. I will keep working with you until it's resolved.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-12-17T01:04:46+00:00

    Press Windows key + X

    Click Device Manager

    Expand Disk Drives

    Right click the USB if its listed there

    Click Uninstall

    Exit Device Manager then restart.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-12-17T02:57:10+00:00

    thanks for the reply but they all failed :(

    and delete partition it will delete all its contents?

    some observations: i use several partitions on my PC, truecrypt volumes that i mount times to times

    maybe something to do with drive letter conflict?

    and i read somewhere that sometimes somehow the xbox app prevent windows to mount nfts volume or something like that...i don't know....

    Feeling Hopeless man :(

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-12-17T03:00:39+00:00

    yeah i did try that

    but i did not succeed

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  5. Greg Carmack 24,745 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2017-12-17T03:31:59+00:00

    Yes, you wouldn't want to delete the partition until data is moved off from another PC.

    Is the drive readable on another PC?

    Have you done a lot of tweaking of Windows? It won't tolerate too much.

    Do you have a restore point before the drive wouldn't mount a letter? http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/computing/how-t...

    I hope this helps. Feel free to ask back any questions and let us know how it goes. I will keep working with you until it's resolved.

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