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How to Detect a Secondary Drive (Dynamic Disk listed as Foreign) on the Intel® NUC

Content Type: Troubleshooting | Article ID: 000057825 | Last Reviewed: 12/21/2022

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Windows® 10 family

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Additional second drive not available-showing up on Windows file explorer to be used.

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Make sure to backup all data before proceeding with the steps below
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Press Windows Key +x and select Disk Management.
Identify if second drive is detected, if appears as dynamic disk showing foreign, the data on the disk is still there but invisible. To access data on the disk, you must add the disk to your computer's system configuration.
Right-click the foreign disk and select Import Foreign Disks.
After that, any existing volumes on the foreign disk become visible and accessible.

Disk Management is a system utility in Windows that enables you to perform advanced storage tasks.
Steps found from 3rd party website: What is Dynamic Foreign Disk, How to Import Foreign Disk Without Data Loss

This article applies to 32 products.

Intel® NUC Kit with 5th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors Intel® NUC Kit with 6th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors Intel® NUC Kit with Intel® Atom® Processors Intel® NUC Kit with Intel® Celeron® Processors Intel® NUC Kit with Intel® Pentium® Processors Legacy Intel® NUC Kits

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