[SOLVED] External Hard Drive not showing up in file manager

[Usernameisrequired]

I have used many external hard drives on my computer and none of them will show up in file manager on my computer. Flash drives will work but not external hard drives. The hard drives show up under disk management and everywhere else except file manager like they used to. They work on other people's computers so it must be a file manager setting or something wrong with the settings on my computer.

 

[rgd1101]

upload a screenshot when it show up in disk management to imgur.com and post the link here
is the external disk empty?

 

[fzabkar]

Some external enclosures are configured with a 4KB sector size, while others use 512 byte sectors. You can see this in the Partitions window in DMDE.

https://dmde.com/

 

[Usernameisrequired]

Some external enclosures are configured with a 4KB sector size, while others use 512 byte sectors. You can see this in the Partitions window in DMDE.

https://dmde.com/

That's not the problem. File manager was reading these drives fine before, now it can't. It's not an issue with the hard drive, it's something wrong with file manager

 

[fzabkar]

I would still try DMDE. That will only take 1 minute of your time.

When you see your desired partition in DMDE, double-click it and expand the $Root. Do you now see your file/folder tree?

 

[rgd1101]

assign a drive letter in disk management?

 

[Usernameisrequired]

assign a drive letter in disk management?

That work! Thank you

 

[Usernameisrequired]

upload a screenshot when it show up in disk management to imgur.com and post the link here
is the external disk empty?

Here's the link

https://imgur.com/a/NhCmsQW

View: https://imgur.com/a/NhCmsQW

It's Disk 1 obviously
They work everywhere and can be detected by every other program except file manager.

 

[fzabkar]

I wonder if this behaviour is due to automount being disabled?

https://winaero.com/disable-automount-new-drives-windows-10/