From an
elevated command prompt, run this command (it just asks details about your drive):
Code:
fsutil fsinfo volumeinfo p:
Then post its result here.
Example:
In the meanwhile, you can try the previous command along with the
/X parameter (i.e.,
FORMAT P: /FS:NTFS /Q /X /V:New)... If the
P letter is still assigned to the drive.
Hey Xilolee,
Well This will be strange but here goes, I can not do what you suggested this time.
Something in windows is being nuts! Ill try to explain.
I have had some updates from Windows and now windows is being stupid.
When I connect docking bays and units to the usb 3 they no longer show and make my other usb 3 items disappear.
On top of that computer management cant access anything if the units are connected to usb 3 not he units or any drive.
Computer management storage wont open It simply sits there saying accessing virtual driver or drives and nothing happens.
So I went into services.msc and went to virtual drive and set to automatic start as it was set to manual.
I then restarted and once I logged in i got a BSOD for a file mvs91xx.sys and then it restarted on its own.
Then after the restart I went into explorer and all my external drives were gone not listed at all I was able to open computer management this time and drives were not there.
I did several restarts and could not get my drives back so I ran sfc /scannow from elevated command prompt and found not errors.
I ran dism commands and it found no errors.
So I shut down my docking bays but left them connected and refreshed explorer many times others drive never appeared.
I did some restarts and still the drives did not come back so I swore about a million times and disconnect the docking bays from usb 3 and restarted.
At this point after it restarted and i logged in the drives were still gone.
I went back into services.msc and set virtual drive to manual which is what is was before.
i then restarted yet again and now all my other drives are back.
So I connected the docking bays back to usb 3 and now they are never seen and I tried for over a day.
i thought maybe a bad cable so I purchase new usb 3 cables and that did not help.
I connected usb 3 flash drive to ports and they are seen fine.
I finally gave up and reconnected docking bays back to usb 2 and they work fine on there.
I am not sure what the heck is going on but i think I am ready to give up.
I will purchase some new usb3 pci cards and an estata card and try those at a later date.
But i will make sure they each come with a drivers disk.
So at this time I am giving up on trying to get docking bays back on usb 3.
Now that my other drives that are on usb 3 work again I will settle with docking bays on usb 2 for my hotswap needs.
Thanks for all your help and the help of the others.
I hope you all have a fantastic Christmas and/or Holiday Season.
Thanks again.
Fred