Internal Hard Drive Not Showing Up. Buying a hard drive, whether online or at a brick-and-mortar store, can be tricky. Internal Hard Drive does not show up in Windows Disk Management.
Yes, thumb drives will show up in File Explorer similar to internal drives, it is ok. External hard drives back up your most important files, but what happens when they malfunction? A new unused disk in Windows should show up in disk management and will need the initialization wizard to run followed by formatting.
Normally, Windows does this automatically, but sometimes because of other connected devices, your external hard drive will be recognized, but not have any drive letter assigned to it.
What is causing the hard drive not showing up in disk management error?
All good advice, but when installing a extra drive it will not show up in windows. my advice is to follow the link and download the software on the site of the harddrive manufactuer; Such as this link to Western Digital drives site, this will show the. I accidentally clean my hard disk and now it's really not showing in my computer. I recently just installed an SATA hard drive (thanks to some helpful members on this forum) as a secondary hard drive.