Drive appears in "This PC" but not outside like the others

ErraticFox · May 6, 2024

Most of my drives appear outside of "This PC" and within "This PC" except my F drive, it only appears inside of "This PC". How can I make it appear like the others? Image attached for reference.

Berton · May 6, 2024

Most times in File Explorer anything between This PC and up to Home or Quick Access are usually shortcuts to the actual file, seen by right-clicking the item and choosing Properties to see the path to the actual location of the item. Hard to tell about yours as the image doesn't show everything in the Navigation pane.

Mine on one of my Notebooks, also note the Thumbtacks denoting Pinned.

One of my Notebooks,nh

PurSpyk!! · May 6, 2024

Maybe this might help?

Add or Remove E Drive in Navigation Pane of File Explorer in Windows 11 Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to add or remove the E: Drive in the navigation pane of File Explorer for your account in Windows 11. All drives are shown under the This PC group in the navigation pane of File Explorer by default. Removable drives are shown as separate groups in the navigation...

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ErraticFox · May 12, 2024

Berton said:
Most times in File Explorer anything between This PC and up to Home or Quick Access are usually shortcuts to the actual file, seen by right-clicking the item and choosing Properties to see the path to the actual location of the item. Hard to tell about yours as the image doesn't show everything in the Navigation pane.

Mine on one of my Notebooks, also note the Thumbtacks denoting Pinned.

As you can see in my new image, the D: and E: Drives are under This PC and outside of it.

PurSpyk!! said:
Maybe this might help?

Add or Remove E Drive in Navigation Pane of File Explorer in Windows 11 Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to add or remove the E: Drive in the navigation pane of File Explorer for your account in Windows 11. All drives are shown under the This PC group in the navigation pane of File Explorer by default. Removable drives are shown as separate groups in the navigation...

www.elevenforum.com

This would seem to work, but it's specifically for the E: Drive, which my E: Drive is already there. How could I go about modifying the reg script to do it with the F: drive.

Also, why did my D: and E: drive do this automatically and not my F:? D: and E: are SATA SSDs while my F: is a NVME SSD, could that be the reason?

Edwin · May 12, 2024

ErraticFox said:
Also, why did my D: and E: drive do this automatically and not my F:?

Perhaps D and E are classified as Removeable Drives, where F is not.

steveg · May 12, 2024

I have similar setup and F: is also a NVME, it appears in the right click context menu. Would also be curious why not showing in your case. When in doubt I always run sfc /scannow just for grins I guess. Perhaps disable or uninstall then reboot.