D drive problem on my PC 25 June 2022 at 2:14PM in Techie Stuff 13 replies 182 views

spaceboy

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?

tallmansix

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

go to disk management and see if a drive letter is assigned. 

spaceboy

It's not showing D

Neil_Jones

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

If you right click on your G: drive in disk management you can change the drive letter back to D

spaceboy

Neil_Jones 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.

spaceboy

Peter999_2 said:

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

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.

tallmansix

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

spaceboy said:

Neil_Jones 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..