How do I unhide a disk partition?

Unhide the Drive Using Disk Management

  1. From the Start menu, open the Run dialog box or you can press the “Window + R” key to open the RUN window.
  2. Type “diskmgmt.
  3. Right click on the drive hidden by you, then select “Change Drive Letters and Paths”.
  4. Remove the mentioned drive letter and path, then click on the OK button.

Can a partition be hidden?

Right click the Start menu and select Disk Management. Locate the partition you’d like to hide and click to select it. Right-click the partition (or disk) and select Change Drive Letter and Paths from the list of options. Click the Remove button.

How do I find a hidden hard drive?

Select View > Show > Hidden items.

  1. Open File Explorer from the taskbar.
  2. Select View > Options > Change folder and search options.
  3. Select the View tab and, in Advanced settings, select Show hidden files, folders, and drives and OK.

What is a hidden partition hard drive?

The hidden partition holds information about the system boot file and the disk boot sector, which could not be visible in Explorer so that the user unable to modify these system files in case of system failure.

How do I fix a hidden file on my external hard drive?

Follow steps to recover hidden files from an external hard disk:

  1. Select the virus infected drive to scan. Run EaseUS virus file recovery software on your Windows PC.
  2. Check all scanned results.
  3. Preview and recover deleted/hidden files.

Why are some files not visible on my external hard drive?

One likely cause of files not appearing from an External HDD is that your drivers aren’t up to date. This can happen if you plug the drive into a computer that it has never been plugged into before, or if you have run updates on your machine since the last time the drive was plugged in.

Why can I not see the files on my external hard drive?

When the power supply of the USB port that your external hard drive connected to is not enough, you may not see files on external hard drive. In such a case, you can connect the external hard drive to the USB port on the back of computer case. After that, to see if files show up in external hard drive.