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Hi.

Recently I have been formatting my PC due to some errors I had and I wanted to clean up my PC after some time using it. 

Now, at the format itself I always deleted HDDs first, then create new ones. so in the last format I created only my SSD (which is the windows installation) and forgot to create new Partitions for my other disks (aka disk 1&2).

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Now from that issue I occured I cannot find my disks anymore. They're connected in the device manager, they can be listed in the Bios but I cannot see them anymore in Storage (so I cannot allocate them back) and whenever I try to allocate them thro properties in the device manager it tells me "Cannot find an information about this disk". They exist but cannot be allocated and I can't work with 200GB of the SSD because I have alot of documents and things I need to put back and obviously it will be a wasted of over 3TB HDDs (There are two connected HDDs in addition to the SSD).

 

Also whenever I connect USB it counts as Disk 3, which means SSD is 0 (default) and it skips 1-2 cause they exist seems like but no allocated.

 

Main issue is I cannot allocate the missing disks due to the remove when I formatted few hours ago.

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1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

do they show up if you run get-physicaldisk in powershell?

 

Windows will hide drives from diskmanagement if storage spaces takes, them, so that might be the issue here.

Yes, they do show there.

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1 minute ago, Orellius said:

Yes, they do show there.

does the drive show up in storage spaces gui in windows 10?

 

If it does, remove it from there, otherwise id try using a third part formattin g tool, or remove-physicaldisk

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1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

does the drive show up in storage spaces gui in windows 10?

 

If it does, remove it from there, otherwise id try using a third part formattin g tool, or remove-physicaldisk

No, they don't if I get what you mean, storage management? you can simply check the screenshot I have sent, it's not showing the other disks. Except for the SSD.

and what tools? Removing physical disk will restore them back?

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Just now, Orellius said:

No, they don't if I get what you mean, storage management? you can simply check the screenshot I have sent, it's not showing the other disks. Except for the SSD.

and what tools? Removing physical disk will restore them back?

do the drives show up in the storage spaces gui?

 

remove-physicaldisk will remove a disk from a storage spaces pool, thats normally why a disk won't show in disk management.

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1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

do the drives show up in the storage spaces gui?

 

remove-physicaldisk will remove a disk from a storage spaces pool, thats normally why a disk won't show in disk management.

How to use remove disk? This is the current list: 

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3 minutes ago, Trinopoty said:

Go to Computer Management -> Disk Management and see if they get listed. If so, partition and format them from there.

They do not get listed upon entering the disk management, that's basically what I'm trying to say, They do not get listed there so I cannot allocated nor format them.

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