I have an external USB drive I use for file backups in my home network (for both Windows and OSX machines). It's normally plugged into my wireless router (TP-Link Archer C9). It works fine but I would like to do some faster file transfers so I plugged it into my Windows 10 machine via USB and Windows won't assign it a drive letter. DISKPART says "type" is "unknown" and, unfortunately, I don't remember what I had formatted it as.
I attempted to follow the answer for this question (How do I mount the EFI partition on Windows 8.1 so that it is readable and writeable?) but DISKPART says there's no volume for me to mount.
DISKPART> list volume Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 E DVD-ROM 0 B No Media Volume 1 System Rese NTFS Partition 100 MB Healthy System Volume 2 C NTFS Partition 930 GB Healthy Boot Volume 3 NTFS Partition 450 MB Healthy Hidden Volume 4 D Samsung SSD NTFS Partition 232 GB Healthy Volume 5 F SEAGATE FAT32 Partition 1863 GB Healthy Volume 6 EFI FAT32 Partition 200 MB Healthy Hidden
DISKPART> list part Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 System 200 MB 20 KB
* Partition 2 Unknown 931 GB 200 MB
DISKPART> assign
There is no volume specified.
Please select a volume and try again.Here's look the Disk Management screen. The highlighted volume is the one I'd like access to. I don't know why I can't see it in DISKPART.
2 Answers
Its partition ID is incorrect.
diskpart
select disk #
select partition #
set id=#Get ID from:
eg: 07 for NTFS, 0b or 0c for Fat32, ee/ef for EFI
Many routers are based on Linux and are therefore likely to use a filesystem like Ext4 or some other filesystem that Windows does not by default know how to read.
I would boot my Windows PC from a Linux live USB device or DVD as it will have tools to identify the partition. Likely it will automount them.
Having identified the filesystem as Ext4, I would then either use Linux to work with the files or to copy the files to an existing NTFS or FAT partition on the PC's main hard disk. Alternatively install support for EXT4 on Windows
