Windows 10: Hard Drive files disappeared, drive under new name.

A few months ago, I bought a 4TB hard drive for storing files during travel. I later installed many large movie files on the drive for storage. I plugged the hard drive into my laptop today and suddenly, I can't see any of the files I downloaded. The driver used to appear in the system as "My Passport" but now only appears as "local disk." It's a completely new and empty driver with 1.63TB of space. The smaller storage space and different driver names make me think my files are still on the original drive, but they've been hidden for some reason. I recently installed the most recent Windows up

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External Hard Drive

Hi John,

We suggest that you try the troubleshooting steps below:

• Open your External Hard Drive file in File Explorer.
• Type the name of the file you want to search on the search box and click Enter.

The file will show up in Search Results and you will be able to move it to the correct folder.

Let us know if you need further help.

 

Stored files in Hard Drive

You can use Windows search. Just search for *.* on a desired drive. When list is done just arrange them by size LOL.

You can do it via command line as well and make an output text file showing files and their sizes (but without arrangement)

 

Stored files in Hard Drive

I'd like to know if there's a way of listing all the files stored in my hardware and arrange them by size, because I want to keep track of what's on my hard drive. Thanks, I hope you answer.