Hard Drive now not showing in W7 64bit

[BirdDad]

One of my hard drives have dissapeared from my computer and is only visable under computer managment/storage and is healthy according to it.
It doesn't have a letter associated with it. How do I get it to show up?

 

[phis6]

You must assign a drive letter for your drive in Windows Disk Management for the drive to be visible in your Windows File Explorer.

 

[BirdDad]

It is not letting me, the option is grayed out-it reports that it is a healthy partition though
I don't want to do anything to it other than to get it to show up as it has information on it.

 

[BirdDad]

it is showing up normal in device manager
it just does not have a letter assigned to it.

 

[BirdDad]

does anyone know what to do? I can't assign a letter to it because that option is grayed out in disk man.
The only option that it is showing that I can do is delete volume and I don;t want that, I have important stuff on there.
I just tried to uninstall it from device manager then scan for hardware changes and it detects the drive but does not assign a letter!

 

[HOSED]

If no one has a better idea, I would create a live Ubuntu Flash drive (or DVD) and backup your data to another drive. Once everything is backed up, load windows, delete the volume, format it, then restore the data.
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows
Boot into Ubuntu. Once you have the desktop loaded launch Nautilus (the second button on the left side) to access the drive.

 

[BirdDad]

I have it on bitlocker

 

[Burpo]

"the system partition will not be given a letter and will be hidden from the user."

You didn't say you had an encrypted drive..

"BitLocker will store its key on the USB device."

No key/no data

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd875544(v=ws.10).aspx

 

[BirdDad]

I have it passworded it is in my system not USB.

 

[Elixer]

Clone the drive to a new drive (raw mode), then run Repair-bde on the new drive, and I hope you have your key, if not, your SOL.

 

[BirdDad]

Thanks Elixer got it working