Backup USB 3 drive doesn’t show up in Explorer

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I clone all my computers about twice a month with CASPER 8.0 which I have been using for years with no ill effects. As my signature says, all are on the 1909 version and current to 18363.1256.

Before running WU, I do a fresh clone of the C drive in every computer and a system restore point. All of the computers except 1 show the USB drive in File Explorer as the next drive letter assignment and I can access that drive to look at it and see if current files are on the USB cloned drive. My girlfriends computer used to show the USB drive as the next drive letter but for some reason it no longer shows it and hasn’t for the last few times I have cloned the C drive.

My question is, why did it stop showing the USB drive (even though the computer runs and finishes the clone) in File Explorer? I looked in Disk Management and didn’t see it there either. Is there a setting that she may have changed to stop showing the USB drive??

Thanks for any help

Don't take yourself so seriously, no one else does
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You posted this a month or so back. Have you tried your own advice yet?

There was also something about clearing a cache somewhere on this site – but I can’t find it now.

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No I haven’t. That post seemed to be dealing with someone’s thumb drives but I suppose that it’s a possibility in this case although this problem seems to be a little different. I had totally forgot about that thread, good find PK.

My thought is that since it’s a cloned drive, it should take the next drive letter shouldn’t it?

 

Don't take yourself so seriously, no one else does
All W10 Pro at 22H2,(2 Desktops, 1 Laptop).

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As it’s a clone Windows may not be adding a drive letter because it’s the same as an existing drive.

Open Disk Manager (Win R, diskmgmt.msc).
Right click on the drive and you can assign a letter.

cheers, Paul

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Thanks Paul, All my computers except the 1 shows the drive letter and the 1 that’s not showing it now, used to, so something has changed on just that 1 computer. PK pointed out the post that I gave someone else so I did that yesterday but have not hooked the clone back up to the computer to see if it worked yet or not. My girlfriend (it’s her computer) is unavailable right now to test it.

Don't take yourself so seriously, no one else does
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I know this thread is old but I found the problem/solution in case it happens to someone else. The girlfriends computer that this originally happened too is gone along with the girlfriend but it happened to one of my computers lately after a Feature update.

I noticed that while my external USB 3.0 SSD was cloning that it was cloning as a volume number instead of a drive letter so that is why it never showed up in File Explorer or in Disk Management.

To fix it I went into the Casper 8 program and figured out how to change it and assign a drive letter “S”. Now it shows up in File Explorer and everywhere else. Not sure why the change to a volume number happened after a Feature update but at least this may help someone else if it happens to them.

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That’s what I said. 

cheers, Paul

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