Fresh install of Windows 10 won't see 4 hard drives

[MrSquished]

Hi,

So formatted my hard drive and I re-installed Windows 10 last week on my Crucial SSD. Everything runs super snappy as expected.

I have 5 mechanical hard drives installed into this desktop as well. Last week it would see them, and when I tried to access 1 of them it asked me for administrator privileges, which I gave and it accessed it. Now when I'm booting up it only sees 1 hard drive in File Explorer. When I go to Settings>System>Storage it sees all the hard drives. When I try to explore my hard drives via a program like Excel it also sees all the hard drives, though won't grant me permission to see all the files.

What gives?

 

[Elixer]

How did you try to access them when it asked for administrator privileges?
Seems your permissions have become fubared.
You can reset permissions with this http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3841-take-ownership-add-context-menu-windows-10-a.html

 

[Puffnstuff]

Have the drives been assigned a drive letter, as in mounted by disk management?

 

[MrSquished]

You can see here that in File explorer on the left only one hard drive shows up and on the right in storage, all drives show up as lettered. Same thing in Disk Management - they all show up as lettered and having a PATH.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Over here http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...rive-not/9ae7f6ea-4e17-44eb-8a1a-9ae6bc4ee31c someone had to import a foreign disc in disk management to make file explorer see the drives.

 

[MrSquished]

I re-mapped all the drives with new letters and everything shows up. For some reason one of my drives shows up twice - once in 'This PC' dropdown in file explorer and once on its own in file explorer. It's the largest drive by far at 3TB. The others are two 1 terabyte drives and two drives at 750gb and 640gb. My C drive is a 500gb SATA.

Thanks!

 

[boomerang]

I guess your problem is solved but on the left what you were looking at is what was populated in Quick access not This PC. Quick access is Frequent folders and Recent files not drives.