Recover data from drive after missing drive letter

Drive letter is a single character that assigned to a drive partition, U disk, SD card and so on. Generally, drive letter C is assigned to the system disk which we install the Windows. And other drive letters are assigned to other partitions which you create according to your needs. We can store the files to different partition so that we can easy to find them in the certain partition. However, if you a certain drive letter is missing in Windows explorer or Disk Management. The disappearance of drive letter may lead the partition inaccessible. To solve this problem, we must know why the drive letter disappear.

1.  All the drive letters missing in Computer

Open Computer or My Computer, it lists all the drive with their own drive letter. Sometimes, you may found that all these drive letter s disappear. It will bring convenience for us to access files. What are the problems and how to get all the drive letters back?

If you found all the drive letters disappear, you should first check the Folder Options. In the folder options, click the View tab, you will see an option of Show drive letter in the Advanced settings. Please check this option. If you uncheck this option, all the drive letters will be hide.

2. Drive letter missing in Disk Management

Disk management is a windows built-in tool to manage all the partitions. If you found that a partition has no drive letter shown up in the Disk management, you should get the drive letter back if you want to access the files on this partition.

How to change the drive letter in Disk management?

Right-click the partition you need to fix, choose to change Drive letter and paths for F:, you can add, change or remove the drive letter. Click add to assign a drive letter for this partition, or click change to change the drive letter.

In case you cannot access to this partition, and failed to change or assign drive letter, you should use Hdata recovery software to recover the files on this partition. It is a free download and professional data recovery tool.

How to use free undelete software to retrieve data from partitions?

Launch Hdata recovery software on your computer. If you use an external hard drive, you have to connect it to computer and make sure it can be recognized.

On the software interface, there are four mode which can recover data from partitions. You can use the module of Hard drive partition lost or crash, or Universal recovery to get the files back.

After you choose the recovery mode, you need to choose the partition inaccessible to scan and then wait for the scanning ends. Do not interrupt the scanning.

As the scanning ends, you are able to preview all the files. You can check the files you need by the provided filter condition to recover.

Then you should choose a recovery path. The recovery path will store all the files you selected to recover. So you should not choose a location which had data loss, or once the recovery fails, it will cause data overwritten.

Although you can recover files by using data recovery software, but the data recovery software is never a good choice. They can only recover the files that have not been overwritten. Even if you use the computer or other device with care, you still have great chance to have data loss due to non-artificial reasons. Backup is a regular thing and we should keep it in mind to secure our data.