Lost drive letters

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What would cause Windows ten to remove drive letters from my WD Black, 1tb Drives? I can still go to my bios and boot from them, but Macrium Reflect will not clone to them. My C: drive is an SSD. I use the WDs as part of my backup system. Thank you, Angster
 

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Check Disk Management and see how it is reporting the drives.
Right click the Start Button and choose Disk Management from the context menu.
Can you assign a drive letter to the drives from within Disk Management?
 
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Check Disk Management and see how it is reporting the drives.
Right click the Start Button and choose Disk Management from the context menu.
Can you assign a drive letter to the drives from within Disk Management?
 
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Thanks for responding Trouble.
The drives show in disk Management as healthy drives with no drive letters. I can find no way to add drive letters. There is "Change drive letters" . That doesn't work. I have googled it and there are no posts on adding a drive letter. I assume that formatting them will cause new drive letters but I am not ready to lose the information on them.
 

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Is there a chance that either or both of these two drives have ever been attached to a MAC?
 
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Try right clicking the partition in DM and see if the option is in bold.
 

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