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D drive problem on my PC
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spaceboy
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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?
Can anyone help?
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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)0
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go to disk management and see if a drive letter is assigned.1
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It's not showing D0 -
Well if C and D were on the same hard drive then your old drive D is now Drive G for whatever reason.
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If you right click on your G: drive in disk management you can change the drive letter back to D
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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.0
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Peter999_2 said:If you right click on your G: drive in disk management you can change the drive letter back to D0
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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 leccy0 -
spaceboy said:
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?No, G was always there. I cant actually remember if D was same drive as C or if G is same drive as C.
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.0 -
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.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..0
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