[SOLVED] Couldn't find drive

[hamimmse11]

Hi, i created a partition but i couldn't find out. Can anyone help me?

 

[popatim]

The Drive won't appear until you format the partition and give it a drive letter.

Check in Disk Management for it. (run diskmgmt.msc)

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

The Drive won't appear until you format the partition and give it a drive letter.

Check in Disk Management for it. (run diskmgmt.msc)

Drive letter assignment surely takes place during the partition creation process, not during the formatting process?

 

[popatim]

Nope, format. You format the partition, not the other way around. These days its Initialize and create Volumes now that were a long ways from DOS. LoL

Just to be clear, Format is where you assign the drive letter at least in the old days.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Nope, format. You format the partition, not the other way around. These days its Initialize and create Volumes now that were a long ways from DOS. LoL

Just to be clear, Format is where you assign the drive letter at least in the old days.

Not according to Microsoft. See steps 5 & 6:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17418/windows-7-create-format-hard-disk-partition.

You can even choose not to format a new partition for the time being, but it will still have a drive letter.

 

[popatim]

I will have to try that and see. I wonder why you would have use of a drive letter for an unusable drive though. LoL
In the past Formatting was where you assigned the drive letter.