Selecting drives in Diskpart

[PseudoSudo]

Hi, I'm trying to add a second HDD to my computer, but I'm having issues with assigning a letter to the drive. I can't assign a letter in Disk management. I've gone into diskpart and the HDD is detected but when selecting it and listing volume the volume of my SSD (the original drive) shows up and not the HDD. I can try assigning a volume to the HDD but I'm not sure if adding a new partition will delete any data on that HDD, which has important documents on it. Thanks in advance!

 

[rgd1101]

why can't you assign a letter in disk management ?

 

[drtweak]

It sounds like there is more so and issue with the drive/connection. Try a different sata port or try it in another PC if you have one and see if it shows up and formats and adds a driver letter normally. If it doesn't do it in another PC it is probably a faulty drive. Also try another SATA cable even though in 10 years of dealing with SATA driver only 1 time has there been an issue withe the cable itself.

 

[USAFRet]

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

 

[failboat]

Are you trying to mount a drive that was being used on another installation? You may need elevated privileges to get past the permissions. Make sure you are admin when trying to mount. It might need to be done on command line. I haven't done it in a while.

Check what file system the drive was coming from. If it came out of the linux machine then there will be more steps.

 

[PseudoSudo]

Are you trying to mount a drive that was being used on another installation? You may need elevated privileges to get past the permissions. Make sure you are admin when trying to mount. It might need to be done on command line. I haven't done it in a while.

Check what file system the drive was coming from. If it came out of the linux machine then there will be more steps.

Yeah it came from a mac to a windows pc so some googling fixed the issue. Thanks