Hi @Arnauld12 welcome to this free user-to-user Alienware laptop discussion forum.
When in Windows 10 64-bit operating system, the 1TB drive's partition requires a drive letter. Please open Disk Management and share image in your next post.
If the drive was installed under the Linux OS, the filesystem is probably ext4 or a variant of it, which Windows cannot natively read.
Under Linux, open a command prompt and type
df -k
If it return an ext filesystem, that's why Windows cannot see it.
Yes, my non recognized disk is ext4. Is there anyway to have it recognized by both Linux and Windows? As I don't have a lot of things on it I could easily backup and change ext4 for something else so it can be recognized by both Windows and Linux.
ejn63
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July 21st, 2023 17:00
You can repartition and reformat the disc in NTFS format (most modern Linux OS can read NTFS) or use a utility under Windows to mount the drive.
https://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/mount-ext4-windows/#:~:text=DiskInternals%20Linux%20Reader%20is%20a,XFS%2C%20Hikvision%20NAS%20and%20DVR.
crimsom
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July 21st, 2023 00:00
Hi @Arnauld12 welcome to this free user-to-user Alienware laptop discussion forum.
When in Windows 10 64-bit operating system, the 1TB drive's partition requires a drive letter. Please open Disk Management and share image in your next post.
ejn63
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July 21st, 2023 09:00
If the drive was installed under the Linux OS, the filesystem is probably ext4 or a variant of it, which Windows cannot natively read.
Under Linux, open a command prompt and type
df -k
If it return an ext filesystem, that's why Windows cannot see it.
Arnauld12
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July 21st, 2023 16:00
Yes, my non recognized disk is ext4. Is there anyway to have it recognized by both Linux and Windows? As I don't have a lot of things on it I could easily backup and change ext4 for something else so it can be recognized by both Windows and Linux.
Arnauld12
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July 21st, 2023 16:00
Here is a screenshot:
The non recognized disk is disk 0.
crimsom
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July 21st, 2023 18:00
Hi @Arnauld12 thank you for sharing Disk Management image.
dual boot - Hard drive shared between Linux and Windows - Ask Ubuntu.
Having opened the windows 10 operating system at dual boot, please right click on Disk 0 and assign a permanent letter to the 1TB Data drive. How to assign permanent letters to drives on Windows 10 | Windows Central.
Arnauld12
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July 22nd, 2023 14:00
Hi,
I reformated the disc in exFAT.
Thank you all for your help.