Hard drive disappeared from disk management

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Under this situation, it will be regarded as an unknown disk and shows the capacity to be 2048 GB in the Disk Management. You may experience that your USB or external drive has been connected to the computer, but it is not showing in File Explorer or My Computer, but shows in Disk Management instead.

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Case 1: External hard drive shows up in disk management but not file explorer

 

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