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The contents of the partition are now accessible as that drive.
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In the resulting dialog, make sure “Assign the following letter” is selected, and choose any letter from the dropdown list to the right. In the resulting dialog, click on the Add… button. Right-click on the partition that has no drive letter for a pop-up menu of actions, and click on Change Drive Letter and Paths…. Viewing the contents of an un-lettered partition The “Unallocated” partition contains nothing. The partition almost certainly has data in it, but is probably designed to be read by specific tools other than Windows. Other partitions, such as the unlabelled “Healthy” partition, use a disk format Windows doesn’t understand natively. In the example above, we see a single hard disk (Disk 0) with three partitions and some unused space.Īny partition that has a disk format listed - such as “NTFS” shown above - is a disk that can be examined within Windows, even if it does not have a drive letter associated with it. This will bring up the Disk Management interface, displaying the disks and partitions found on your machine. Right-click on the Start menu and click on the Disk Manager item. As we’ll see later, that’s a good thing.īut what if you just want to peek inside and see what’s there? Disk manager More often than not, these partitions are hidden, meaning that you don’t see or interact with them in normal use. Another partition might have recovery or diagnostic tools, and another might be used in conjunction with the UEFI BIOS replacement to contain system or disk configuration information. For example, a drive might have space set aside for a pristine copy of the operating system in lieu of providing physical installation disks. Partitions are now frequently created by computer manufacturers. I tend to prefer a single partition for everything as a better way of managing all available space. For example, you might partition a hard disk into a C: drive and a D: drive to keep the operating system and data segregated. There are various schools of thought as to whether that’s a good thing for users to do. Partitions divide the space on a single physical hard disk to look like several disks instead. Recovery partitions not having a drive letter is actually a good thing. In fact, there’s no requirement that it be assigned a drive letter at all. While in the past you may have seen such partitions assigned a drive letter like D:, there’s no requirement that it always be that letter. One or more of those partitions is typically labelled as a “recovery partition”.
#VIEW CONTENTS OF WINDOWS CLIPMATE WINDOWS 10#
As we’ve discussed in other articles, machines with Windows 10 installed frequently have multiple partitions.