We're aware that some users are experiencing technical issues which the team are working to resolve. See the Community Noticeboard for more info. Thank you for your patience.
📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!

D drive problem on my PC

Options
spaceboy
spaceboy Posts: 1,928 Forumite
Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
C and D drives are on the same hard drive - it's partitioned. It's been like that for years but today a problem developed when I was deleting something on D and I restarted the PC and D is not opening or show in This PC list.

Can anyone help?
«1

Comments

  • Right click on your start button, select disk management and post a screenshot of it here (assuming MS Windows as you haven't mentioned it)
  • Olinda99
    Olinda99 Posts: 2,042 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Third Anniversary Name Dropper
    go to disk management and see if a drive letter is assigned. 
  • spaceboy
    spaceboy Posts: 1,928 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker


    It's not showing D
  • Neil_Jones
    Neil_Jones Posts: 9,538 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Well if C and D were on the same hard drive then your old drive D is now Drive G for whatever reason.
  • Peter999_2
    Peter999_2 Posts: 1,317 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    If you right click on your G: drive in disk management you can change the drive letter back to D
  • spaceboy
    spaceboy Posts: 1,928 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Well if C and D were on the same hard drive then your old drive D is now Drive G for whatever reason.
    No, G was always there. I cant actually remember if D was same drive as C or if G is same drive as C.
  • spaceboy
    spaceboy Posts: 1,928 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    If you right click on your G: drive in disk management you can change the drive letter back to D
    No, G was always there.
  • debitcardmayhem
    debitcardmayhem Posts: 12,695 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited 25 June 2022 at 4:16PM
    The G is on the same disk as C
    Oh and I would hazard a guess that it is what was D and that whatever you tried to delete from D is where your problems started.
    4.8kWp 12x400W Longhi 9.6 kWh battery Giv-hy 5.0 Inverter, WSW facing Essex . Aint no sunshine ☀️ Octopus gas fixed dec 24 @ 5.74 tracker again+ Octopus Intelligent Flux leccy
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie
    Fifth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited 25 June 2022 at 5:14PM
    spaceboy said:
     No, G was always there. I cant actually remember if D was same drive as C or if G is same drive as C.
    So if G: was always there and doesn't contain your missing D : drive data then we need to understand what physical drive(s) are in your PC? 

    As much info as possible is needed to for people to remotely diagnose PC problems - do you have a make / model or spec for it? Do you know if it has 2 internal HDD's?

    A possible explanation is that you have a second HDD in the machine and that has just gone completely offline - I'm thinking that because I expect to see a "Disk 0" in your disk management view but there isn't one - normally the numbering starts at zero.

    Disk 0 isn't always the first installed disk or the C: drive, in my case the SATA drive is "Disk 0" which is my D : drive and "Disk 1" is my NVMe PCIe C: drive / OS.
  • Neil_Jones
    Neil_Jones Posts: 9,538 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    edited 25 June 2022 at 7:10PM
    spaceboy said:
    Well if C and D were on the same hard drive then your old drive D is now Drive G for whatever reason.
    No, G was always there. I cant actually remember if D was same drive as C or if G is same drive as C.

    But in your screenshot the maths doesn't add up.
    You have a 256Gb drive which can only be an SSD (it shows as 238Gb for reasons that I won't go into now).

    On that SSD You have two (usable) partitions.  If you add the presented figures up they come to 237.87Gb, which will have been rounded off.  If you had a D partition on that drive it would only be about 750Mb in size, so it wasn't very big.

    Its very unlikely (but not impossible) that you had a D drive that small.  So I would support that there's another drive you haven't told us about..
Meet your Ambassadors

🚀 Getting Started

Hi new member!

Our Getting Started Guide will help you get the most out of the Forum

Categories

  • All Categories
  • 350.8K Banking & Borrowing
  • 253.1K Reduce Debt & Boost Income
  • 453.5K Spending & Discounts
  • 243.8K Work, Benefits & Business
  • 598.7K Mortgages, Homes & Bills
  • 176.8K Life & Family
  • 257.1K Travel & Transport
  • 1.5M Hobbies & Leisure
  • 16.1K Discuss & Feedback
  • 37.6K Read-Only Boards

Is this how you want to be seen?

We see you are using a default avatar. It takes only a few seconds to pick a picture.