Wednesday, February 14, 2018

windows 10 - Accessing "unknown" volume in external drive

I have an external USB drive I use for file backups in my home network (for both Windows and OSX machines). It's normally plugged into my wireless router (TP-Link Archer C9). It works fine but I would like to do some faster file transfers so I plugged it into my Windows 10 machine via USB and Windows won't assign it a drive letter. DISKPART says "type" is "unknown" and, unfortunately, I don't remember what I had formatted it as.



I attempted to follow the answer for this question (How do I mount the EFI partition on Windows 8.1 so that it is readable and writeable?) but DISKPART says there's no volume for me to mount.



DISKPART> list volume

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info

---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 E DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 System Rese NTFS Partition 100 MB Healthy System
Volume 2 C NTFS Partition 930 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 3 NTFS Partition 450 MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 4 D Samsung SSD NTFS Partition 232 GB Healthy
Volume 5 F SEAGATE FAT32 Partition 1863 GB Healthy
Volume 6 EFI FAT32 Partition 200 MB Healthy Hidden

DISKPART> list part


Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 System 200 MB 20 KB
* Partition 2 Unknown 931 GB 200 MB

DISKPART> assign

There is no volume specified.
Please select a volume and try again.



Here's look the Disk Management screen. The highlighted volume is the one I'd like access to. I don't know why I can't see it in DISKPART.



Disk management

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