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So yesterday I wanted to hide the System Reserved drives :E and :F from showing up in This PC. I followed the advice in this link How do I hide the System Reserved partition?. After I did this all my drives disappeared from This PC. I tried adding the letters back to fix it but it did not.

To try and fix it I went back to the link and only just saw the bottom comment by Ben N this morning. I tried to follow what he said but I didn't really know what to do once I got to the binary part so I thought I'd better ask instead of changing things.

So if anyone knows how to bring my drives back into This PC - even if the System Reserved ones come back too then that would greatly appreciated.

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Assuming Windows is still operating as normal....

I noticed you tried adding the letters back, but have you done the exact following and restarted? Worth a try before anything else.

  1. Open "Disk Management", available by right clicking the start menu on Windows
    10, its inside "Administrative Tools" -> "Computer Management" if you must
    find it manually.
  2. You should then see all your drives, however the "missing" ones will not
    have drive letters assigned - now identify the right drive.
  3. Right click on it in Disk Management, and select "Change Drive Letter and
    Paths"
  4. Then click the "Add" button and select a letter for the drive before clicking
    OK.
  5. Check Windows Explorer, let me know if it worked / we need to try something
    else.

This may bring back all the drives, however that is a step towards the full solution you're looking for.

Edit:

Check the following registry keys to see if the drive's are registered as mounted with the correct drive letters (don't worry about renaming it):

Registry Path

I am assuming when you added drive letters back you used the same letters and checking Disk Management after reboot shows that the letters are staying assigned to the drives.

Sam

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