

However, such problems can be quite tricky to resolve. There are many reasons possible for this problem such as ransomware virus, encrypted files, hardware issues, file system errors, the hard drive corruption etc. But, sometimes users have a problem that external hard drive not showing up in disk management Windows 10. So, most of the users plug-in external hard drive in their system for storing their data. This should extend the file system on the drive, and the disk should be accessible.The External hard drive is an important storage device because it has the ability to store a huge amount of data items. To do this, run the following command: FSExtend Then, run FSExtend on the drive to extend the file system. Run the following command on the disk to fix any errors on the disk: chkdsk /f Īfter chkdsk is completed successfully, restart the server.

To do this, run the following command: chkdsk d: /l: 65536 /f If you can access the disk, you should free up some free space and then return the NTFS transaction log to the default value of about 65 MB. To shrink the NTFS transaction log to 4 MB, run the following command: chkdsk d: /l:4096 /fĭetermine whether you can access the disk. Then, the disk will have enough space to mount the volume.

If there is too little disk space to mount the volume, shrink the NTFS transaction log to 4 MB. To resolve this issue, use one of the following methods. There is not enough disk space for the file system extend.The file system structure on the disk is corrupted.The issue occurs because of one of the following reasons: Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume : Cause The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable.

However, when you run chkdsk, the file system is shown as NTFS.Īdditionally, you see the following error message in the System log: When you extend a volume by using FSExtend, the volume may show as raw in disk management. This article provides solutions to an issue where a volume shows as raw in disk management but chkdsk shows the file system as NTFS after you extend the partition.Īpplies to: Windows Server 2012 R2 Original KB number: 2261358 Symptoms
