All i had to do was to shut down my desktop, wait to shutdown completely, unplug it, hold down the power button to reset, plug power back up, power on & got my D drive back, :)
Me too. Apparently you have to take away the power and give it a few moments to think about the error of its ways 😀 The PC had been off for a few days, and before then I'd had it on continuously for about a week, and in the meantime there was a Win 10 update that went into action when I turned the PC on today. It seemed to take forever, and then it just went completely black screen for an even longer time (no hourglass, no cursor, no mouse, but the monitor's power lamp was still blue, indicating it was active). So I forced a reboot which appeared to be fine - until I discovered that my 1Tb D drive and all of my data simply weren't there. Disk Management showed C drive only and rescanning changed nothing. Two restarts changed nothing. Forcing shutdown and unplugging for about 10 seconds totally worked. You suggest the additional step of pressing the power button while still unplugged, and I've read about doing that (to "flush" the capacitors) and I didn't do this, but unplugging and waiting a bit (also recommended when rebooting your modem and router) worked fine for me.
The instructions were clear and easy to follow, unfortunately, I tried them all and none worked. All my choices were grayed out. So, I've got a terrabyte unallocated drive for which I have no 'Rename' option. Frustrating.
@@marvello8684 well if u went to bios and didnt see your drive then its probably dead and u cant fix it, u can try to change sata or power cable if u r lucky it might fix it
im a game dev and recently i reinstalled windows, and noticed that my disc D was missing i almost had a heart attack 2 times now, one when i noticed it was gone, and one when it came back (with the 5th solution) words cannot begin to describe how gratefull i am, Thank you, very much, kind sir
Thank you so much for this tutorial. The first piece of advice was the best - don't panic! When Solution 1 didn't work, looked at the "system restore" panel. While looking around there, I noticed that my windows update was only partly completed. So I shut down my computer, let it update, and my 2 other hard drives returned. You are terrific!!!!!
If you have tried all the ways explained and didn’t work, your drive is most likely loose. Try to unscrew your laptop and fix that. You can put a hard paper to cover the space left in the drive slot. I struggled with my drive for months until I discovered that and fixed, it worked. All the best
Thank you so much! Method 5 work for me. Glad that I was not that worried about my missing drive after changing my laptop from windows 10 32-bit to 64-bit.
Let me share my problem encountered and how I fixed it. 1. Drive D is not showing up. So I followed the first step. 2. I see the "hidden" partition but the file system is RAW. 3. I right-click to the RAW partition and clicked "format" and make it NTFS. 4. After the formatting is done, I right-click again the partition and clicked on "change driver and paths..." 5. I assigned D and now the system can now read the "hidden" drive partition. Just sharing. Might as well work on someone else' situation.
Hi there, thank you for your question! If you have tried all common methods to fix a connected but not appearing disk in File Explorer, there are a few other solutions to try. You can open Disk Management by typing "diskmgmt.msc" in the Run dialog box, right-click on the disk that is not showing up, select "Change Drive Letter and Paths", click "Add", and choose a drive letter that is not in use. Alternatively, you can use Command Prompt as an administrator and type "diskpart", then "list disk" to see all connected disks, identify the problematic disk, type "select disk X" (replace "X" with the disk number), "clean" to wipe the disk, "create partition primary" to create a new partition, and "assign letter=X" (replace "X" with the desired letter). Additionally, it is worth checking for hardware issues by trying a different USB port or cable, or connecting the disk to another computer to see if it appears there.
Good video. D: disappeared with crucial office data. What a ruckus it caused! The suggestions in video didn't help but as someone in the comments mentioned, removing laptop battery, removing the SSD, cleaning the connectors and removing dust and putting them back resolved the issue. Gosh. What a stress and thank you to everyone for the great comments and suggestions.
None of that worked for me. I took the cover off of my Lenovo laptop and replaced the hard drive with a new one. It recognized that hard drive. I then swapped the original back in and that worked , but the drive was renamed from D: to F:
thank you soo much my drive has been gone for months and after this video i have gotten it back. thanks for making the video and keep up the good work.
Tried all of the options and none worked. I don't have any unallocated drives, I just have one drive (hard drive) and my local drives D and E disappeared. What do I do?
Hello, I wish you could help me. I try those methods but my SSD is not showing. Here are the things it's mysterious. My SSD shows to the Disk manager It's Ramsta SSD however when I check in disk management is not there so frustrating I need to use this SSD on my laptop.
If someone still can't fix the issue, just make sure that the cable connecting the drive is still and secured. This was the case for me. Replugging the cable soved my problems
No good for me. I am on windows 10, but I do not see some of the menus that you see. Where I do, some of the options are greyed out or do not work. No reflection on you of course, I am sure you know your stuff.
When I went on device manager and disk drives my ssd showed up and said it’s working fine. However it’s not showing up and files that were downloaded or saved on that drive are now saying they are not found. Also on disk management the drive doesn’t show up I only have C drive on there
If this video didn't work, and this issue happened right after doing things inside your pc, chanses are, like me, you broke your SATA port for your hard drive. To fix, just swap the cable of your hard drive to a different SATA port, and make sure it is in good.
Brilliant video, very to the point and easy to understand. However, none of these solutions worked. 1. Rescanning did not find the drive. 2. System restore to two seperate points failed, as it said it couldn't find a certain file and was cancelled so the restore was cancelled. 3. I can not acces Group Policy Manager. gpedit.msc didn't bring up anything 4. All drivers are up to date 5. Couldn't change the drive letter as it couldn't find the drive. I'll for sure drop a like on this video though because even though it didn't work for me it's very well presented!
Hey there! I think I found a solution! I had the same issues, and my system restores even ended up bluescreening.These got me thinking that it's a problem with the physical aspect of your devices. Yes, despite the fact that POST didn't signal any errors, I highly reccomend you take a look at how your SATA/SSD drives are fixed in. In my case, I've messed around with the cables. Usually your drive is fixed by 2 distinct ones. I think one of them thick, with 3 cables at the end, colored red,yellor and black. Thats your SATA power cable, which should be fine if your PC booted up in the first place. The issue in my case was with the second cable. Its red, flat and similar to the cables you can see in old school phones, with spring like rotation. It seemed to sit a little awkward, so I took it out (BEWARE: MAKE SURE YOUR PC ISNT PLUGGED IN) , blew off a little dust, and insterted it back in, this time fitted tighter. I also changed the motherboard port in which I put the 2nd end of the cable. Your motherboard most likely has 1-4 SATA ports which all look similar and serve the same function. In case one was damaged, I decided to put the second half in a different port from the original. Lo and behold, upon booting up, the drive was there once again!
@@iateyourcerealwhileyouread2620 Brother, I answered the original poster with a possible fix. Refer to it cuz I cant be bothered to type it again from my phone, its long.
@@lolololololo160 Hey there. I answered the original poster with a possible fix. Check it out if you're still struggling. I cant type it here since its quite long
@Wondershare Recoverit Data Recovery :Here is the solution What to do when the secondary drive showed up and then disappeared?. The third method works. But the next day my secondary drive not showing again. I went to disk management___Action-----Rescan disks for 3 times. Restarted PC for 3 times. The secondary Drive appeared .Then I highlighted and Format it for 2 times .Now the secondary drive is showing up to this time. I did not change the secondary drive path name. I kept as "D". I think the DVD drive and secondary drive conflicting the name "D" or Win10 wanted to save in CLOUD. Cheers.
My second hard drive is not showing in my computers. And in disk management it is showing as missing. What should I do? I thought it was due to sata cable but no i chnged the sata cable but still its not showing.
Very good video, easy to follow all the solutions. I had a missing D disk after installation of windows 10 on my laptop, but through your video I managed retreiving it. Thanks a lot! :D
System Restore works only about 10% of the time since it came out. Cleaned my computer, and my physical hard drive disappeared. Been using that drive for back-ups for years, now it's gone. Can't even remember what brand it was. There are no loose SATA cables or disconnected power cables, it just disappeared. My Bios shows all SATA ports as working.
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After using photoshop for a while i noticed it was freezing a lot and my D Drive as maxed out at 100% and after that my D Drive just 'Disappeared'. Ever since, my D Drive would be showing in my file explorer but when i try to open something on it, the disk usage goes to 100% and the Drive disappears again. If you've had a similar experience then please reply
i got similar problem, i was using adobe premiere pro and when i did some editing, program suddenly freeze for a 10 seconds then worked normal. But when i try to open a Steam game, it showed that my D drive is missing. I disassembled the computer, removed the ssd then plugged back and it worked somehow. Now having the same problem, gonna do it again :(
Hi there, thank you for your question. If your hard drive is vibrating and making strange noises, it is likely a sign of hardware issues, and there is a possibility that the drive is failing or has already failed.
Hi Michael, Good Day, first of all thanks alot for this informative video, i really loved your content. I have tried all your steps that you have mentioned in this video, but unfortunately it did not fix my issue. So what worked for me is as below: 1. I tried to update all the pending windows updates along with the firmware for devices. You can check if you have any pending updates by navigating from: Start-> Settings-> Update and Security-> Windows Update If you have any pending updates on firmware DO FINISH those updates because it what fixed my issue. 2. (optional) Try reconneing you hard drive cables in the laptop and do a restart. Kindly Pin my comment as it would be helpful to other people if you can. Cheers!
Thank you for posting this comment. None of the other methods were working for me, but I checked the updates. Did find various pending and updated all. After restart, my D drive came back as it was. A big thanks!!!
I have a question. To those who were successful with step 1 does the rescan process tell you by any means that it is done scanning or not? Like some sort of announcement or declare so I know the rescan didn't work.
Hi, i have a bit of weird problem here ( at least for me ). Whenever i open 1 certain game ( just say it game a ), it always start to responding after 5 - 10 minutes playing. And after force close it ( since after waiting for 20 minutes or so the game still stop responding ), my storage drive that i use to store all the said game files, except for the said game launcher that stored on drive C by default, also stop responding. And whenever i tried to shutting down my pc, it takes longer than usual for my PC to turn off ( around 10 minutes or so ). And here is the weird part. At first, i thought " dang....another faulty storage drive", but after i open a couple of musics, films, documents, even run another games that also stored on the very same storage, nothing happening. It run normally and i can shutting down like i usually do ( normally it takes only about 5 - 10 seconds to shutting down my pc )
i installed a program to move C drive files and games to D drive after i realised it was max 500mb free moving. i deleted the program called AOMEI. looked for another program called easeUS same thing 500mb max moving space for free so i deleted the program again. i stopped searching and REALISED I LOST 3500 GB OF SPACE. MY GAMES AND MILION FILES GOT DELETED ITS JUST GONE I ONLY HAVE A FEW FILES LEFT!!!!!!! WTF IS THIS HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE my C drive is an ssd 250gb and my D drive is 4TB. 4000 GB
My problem is it doesn't show because Windows says it's not initialized. I don't want to lose the files, but I fear the disk is faulty, or at least it's been corrupted somehow. Happened with a couple of them already. Trying to get something out of it still. But strangely there's little information about this on the Internet... Thanks.
I have a problem when I copied an SSD hard drive with a copy of Windows 10 and made it master and installed another hard drive, this HDD did not appear for me, knowing that the first has 240 GB and the second has 450 GB, and if I install the second master, it appears normally, is there any help?
The 5th solution worked for me! Something borked my files and I had to reinstall windows. When I did and was reinstalling my apps I noticed my D drive wasn't there.
Rescan did not work for me. So i went to Disk Management, found the affected drive at the bottom >> Right click on it >> Change Drive Letter >> Add >> Selected "D:" drive again. It worked like a charm.
In my case my pc suddenly crash and then my screen turn blue, so i restart my pc then my disk dissapear , I TRY ALL THE METHOD BUT IT DOESN'T WORK , I JUST WAITED FOR A DAY OR SO , IT CAME BACK FOR SOME REASON , JUST LET IT COOK
oh my god! I was panicking, so I just restarted my laptop when I was just about to watch this, and it came back! should I still do some of the things mentioned here?
First time I am commenting, for me it just seems like my drive was just erased or something but your video save my money and tension you doing great work 😉😉👌👌
Not sure if someone will read this comment or not but leaving this here in case it helps someone Go to your bios settings and see if the drives are detected at all in my case just running a hard drive check/memory test solved the issue when all of the instructions in this video failed
I'm a musician and for two days I was working hard on my project and every sound pack and every VST was in my D folder. When I want to restore it wants to throw me back to 2 days ago but in 2 days I've done looots of things and I can't lose them. WTF is this seriously. Why this even happens? And also my computer started to open slow and I'm even doubtful that if I restore 2 days ago it would save my disk or not.
not to be rude but, the non of solutions them actually got me the drive back (restarting sometimes does). if my drive is lost then I have to restart with a chance to get it back I made a backup when it was there and the next time it disappeared the recovery did not help. also making the drive have another letter does not fix the issue. and when my drive I gone I cant even scan for the drives (solution one) ill just reboot it a few times and then hope it wont just gives up after some time.
im like half way through the video and none of these work and like system restore requires clicking on the file name and its not there because its missing
my drive is gone completely it is plugged in and was working before i restarted to update, now its not in my device manager, i cant rescan for it, Unhiding doesnt work.
I tried all these and the SSD from SK Hynix which was showing up no longer does!! I was able to detect it with Device Manager and did a Clean using DiskPart. But the SSD no longer appears! The last time it was showing up, it was going in and out of File Manager!!
Hi there, thank you for your question! First, check the cable and power supply to ensure they are properly connected and functioning correctly. Next, check for any drive errors using the Disk Management tool and try reformatting the drive or performing a disk check if necessary. If the issue persists, try connecting the external hard drive to a different USB port or computer to see if it's recognized.
If you are using a Windows computer, you can find the Disk Management tool by following these steps: Press the Windows key + X on your keyboard. In the menu that appears, select "Disk Management". The Disk Management tool will open, displaying a list of all the storage devices connected to your computer. Alternatively, you can also search for "Disk Management" in the Windows search bar or in the Control Panel.
Nothing works for me, I followed another tutorial wich told me to uninstall the drive if there was no updates available. Which I did, restarted my computer but now my drive is nowhere to be found... I am completely f****d and I don't know what to do. I NEED HELP
I tried doing the first option of RESCAN....I got it back....but after restarting system again only c: drive and DVD drive is visible.....how to solve this....I am on window 7...
I think I have a worse problem. I was playing a game and suddenly my computer just shut off. I smelled a weird burning smell coming out of my vents and I thought my whole computer died. I was able to turn it back on and it booted up just fine but then I noticed a bunch of blank icons on my desktop. I opened up This PC and where drive D should have been there was a box that says CD-ROM instead. Disk Management shows no drive D and system restore did nothing. I'm assuming that my drive D just died on me.
Nothing is working. In the last solution...When Looking For D drive it shows "G" but no media showing. If I click on ADD...Assign the following letter will NOT highlight. Cannot assign a new letter. What do I do
I have 2 of 4 drives that come and go as they please in tandem. Replaced the power supply to no avail. new pc with 2 working old drives. can't be sata cable because they are individual, and were working on the old system. I'm at a loss.
My harddisk is not getting detected... I tried all your methods.. You explained very nicely.. But I was not successful... I don't want to loose my data.
Thank you so much for this viedo. I tried all the steps from the video but the D drive is still not showing up. Is that mean my D drive might be broken?
Thank you very much for sharing this video. Though none actually works for me but as i read comments in here and from other videos I saw someone's comment that he just turned off his computer for a few minutes and turned it on. I did the same...bwalaahh it actually works!!! I got my drive D & E back!! just sharing this.. might also works on others. Good luck guys!
I have just one disk, ssd. My ssd hard disk was divided into c and d. c contains the operating system. One day, when I turned off the computer and turned it on, I saw that the local disk D had disappeared. I'm sure I didn't delete local disk d. Has anyone experienced this? How can I solve it?
I have a Very Old Iomega Barracuda External Gard Drive. I have followed ALL the mentioned Advice notes in this Video and yet Nothing works at all. I also bought a USB 3.0 Sata&IDE Hard Drive Converter as I thought that this would Help. I connected the Converter to the Barracuda then to the PC. Turned the PC On and WOW I could see all the Lost Files on the Iomega once again. I then ran a Virus Check straight away on the Found Files on the Iomega. After running the Virus Check I can No Longer see the Iomega External Drive at all. Not even Disk Management can see the Drive at all. I have tried ALL the Variations on this Video and Nothing seems to Bring back the Iomega Drive at all. It is working with the Drive Converter as it keeps Buzzing away and Making Clicks now and again as though it wants to do something, But Nothing Showing Up On This Pc, No other Drives Visible anywhere. I was So Happy before running the Virus Check but Now Back to Seeing Nothing again. Can Anyway Help at ALL. Appreciated for your time and The Above Video has been followed to every Option. Many Thanks.
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All i had to do was to shut down my desktop, wait to shutdown completely, unplug it, hold down the power button to reset, plug power back up, power on & got my D drive back, :)
Me too. Apparently you have to take away the power and give it a few moments to think about the error of its ways 😀 The PC had been off for a few days, and before then I'd had it on continuously for about a week, and in the meantime there was a Win 10 update that went into action when I turned the PC on today. It seemed to take forever, and then it just went completely black screen for an even longer time (no hourglass, no cursor, no mouse, but the monitor's power lamp was still blue, indicating it was active). So I forced a reboot which appeared to be fine - until I discovered that my 1Tb D drive and all of my data simply weren't there. Disk Management showed C drive only and rescanning changed nothing. Two restarts changed nothing. Forcing shutdown and unplugging for about 10 seconds totally worked. You suggest the additional step of pressing the power button while still unplugged, and I've read about doing that (to "flush" the capacitors) and I didn't do this, but unplugging and waiting a bit (also recommended when rebooting your modem and router) worked fine for me.
This commenttt is 100000%% legit, thanks man. I panicked really hard and one shut down was all it takes
Yeah this is what fixed it for me even on a laptop, thanks.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, THIS WORKED ❤❤
This worked for me as well! Thanks!
The instructions were clear and easy to follow, unfortunately, I tried them all and none worked. All my choices were grayed out. So, I've got a terrabyte unallocated drive for which I have no 'Rename' option. Frustrating.
Same
same i dont got the rename option
same
did you ever figure it out? having the same problem
wonder if the ones above ^ ever found their drive
for me it just seems like my drive was just erased or something
Yea same did you ever find out and fix it
@@marvello8684 most likely your drive is dead
@@gamerarts8455 how do I check or fix
@@marvello8684 well if u went to bios and didnt see your drive then its probably dead and u cant fix it, u can try to change sata or power cable if u r lucky it might fix it
@@marvello8684 i did, i dont exactly remember how because it was a year ago
im a game dev and recently i reinstalled windows, and noticed that my disc D was missing
i almost had a heart attack 2 times now, one when i noticed it was gone, and one when it came back (with the 5th solution)
words cannot begin to describe how gratefull i am, Thank you, very much, kind sir
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Thank you so much for this tutorial. The first piece of advice was the best - don't panic! When Solution 1 didn't work, looked at the "system restore" panel. While looking around there, I noticed that my windows update was only partly completed. So I shut down my computer, let it update, and my 2 other hard drives returned. You are terrific!!!!!
where cna i find this
Read this comment and simply decided to restart my laptop. Worked like a charm :)
My drive appeared when I rescaned disc, but then disappeared again. rescaned again, appeared again then disappeared again.
Thanks for the video. None of the solution worked but luckily drives came back after i restarted few times!
If you have tried all the ways explained and didn’t work, your drive is most likely loose. Try to unscrew your laptop and fix that. You can put a hard paper to cover the space left in the drive slot. I struggled with my drive for months until I discovered that and fixed, it worked. All the best
thank you this worked!
For me non of those methods worked can someone please guide me what to do cuz I'm getting real panic attacks by the passage of time
Hi there,
Could you please elaborate on your question? We're glad to help.
You are really great! I got my D drive back after restoring the device. I was scared a lot because it has 1000GB of data storage. So thanks a lot❤️
Glad to be helpful.:)
Hello, what if the rescan disks isn't clickable for me? Also the system restore in the advance system settings isn't clickable too
me too..wtt why??
Followed every step and still nothing. I’m really disappointed since I’m suddenly missing a 2TB SSD NVME.🤦🏻♂️
My WinRE is missing have no clue to repair my computer, have nor recovery disk either, what to do?
I was downloading a bunch of games on steam and the next day I come back to check on my pc and the drive is gone
Thank you so much! Method 5 work for me. Glad that I was not that worried about my missing drive after changing my laptop from windows 10 32-bit to 64-bit.
Let me share my problem encountered and how I fixed it.
1. Drive D is not showing up. So I followed the first step.
2. I see the "hidden" partition but the file system is RAW.
3. I right-click to the RAW partition and clicked "format" and make it NTFS.
4. After the formatting is done, I right-click again the partition and clicked on "change driver and paths..."
5. I assigned D and now the system can now read the "hidden" drive partition.
Just sharing. Might as well work on someone else' situation.
I was about to do this, but won't you have to format it (ie delete the files)?
Thanks :)
I appreciate how straight forward it is. You also cover various different solutions which I absolutely love. Keep up the great work 💪
This really helped. I got my drive back after doing a rescan. Thank you for posting
this one will not work for me, any other method?
worked with Aomei backup tool here.
I personally think Aomei backupper is better than this one because this one did not work actually.
DIsk is connected but does not appear in file explorer. Tried all your method. None worked. Any other solution?
Hi there, thank you for your question! If you have tried all common methods to fix a connected but not appearing disk in File Explorer, there are a few other solutions to try. You can open Disk Management by typing "diskmgmt.msc" in the Run dialog box, right-click on the disk that is not showing up, select "Change Drive Letter and Paths", click "Add", and choose a drive letter that is not in use. Alternatively, you can use Command Prompt as an administrator and type "diskpart", then "list disk" to see all connected disks, identify the problematic disk, type "select disk X" (replace "X" with the disk number), "clean" to wipe the disk, "create partition primary" to create a new partition, and "assign letter=X" (replace "X" with the desired letter). Additionally, it is worth checking for hardware issues by trying a different USB port or cable, or connecting the disk to another computer to see if it appears there.
Good video. D: disappeared with crucial office data. What a ruckus it caused! The suggestions in video didn't help but as someone in the comments mentioned, removing laptop battery, removing the SSD, cleaning the connectors and removing dust and putting them back resolved the issue. Gosh. What a stress and thank you to everyone for the great comments and suggestions.
None of that worked for me. I took the cover off of my Lenovo laptop and replaced the hard drive with a new one. It recognized that hard drive. I then swapped the original back in and that worked , but the drive was renamed from D: to F:
I also have a lenovo and having the same issues
Method 2 worked. The update made my drive disappear. One day Windows will get their stuff together.
thank you soo much my drive has been gone for months and after this video i have gotten it back. thanks for making the video and keep up the good work.
I am very tense since my D drive is lost and the speaker is so happy in the video xD
lmao same
Tried all of the options and none worked. I don't have any unallocated drives, I just have one drive (hard drive) and my local drives D and E disappeared. What do I do?
Hello, I wish you could help me. I try those methods but my SSD is not showing. Here are the things it's mysterious. My SSD shows to the Disk manager It's Ramsta SSD however when I check in disk management is not there so frustrating I need to use this SSD on my laptop.
Exactly , mine too!
If someone still can't fix the issue, just make sure that the cable connecting the drive is still and secured. This was the case for me. Replugging the cable soved my problems
Wich is that cable
Where is the cable bro helppp
No good for me. I am on windows 10, but I do not see some of the menus that you see. Where I do, some of the options are greyed out or do not work. No reflection on you of course, I am sure you know your stuff.
When I went on device manager and disk drives my ssd showed up and said it’s working fine. However it’s not showing up and files that were downloaded or saved on that drive are now saying they are not found. Also on disk management the drive doesn’t show up I only have C drive on there
If this video didn't work, and this issue happened right after doing things inside your pc, chanses are, like me, you broke your SATA port for your hard drive. To fix, just swap the cable of your hard drive to a different SATA port, and make sure it is in good.
Brilliant video, very to the point and easy to understand. However, none of these solutions worked.
1. Rescanning did not find the drive.
2. System restore to two seperate points failed, as it said it couldn't find a certain file and was cancelled so the restore was cancelled.
3. I can not acces Group Policy Manager. gpedit.msc didn't bring up anything
4. All drivers are up to date
5. Couldn't change the drive letter as it couldn't find the drive.
I'll for sure drop a like on this video though because even though it didn't work for me it's very well presented!
hey man did you find a solution yet or ur still fked because im rlly fked up because of my 1 tb drive gone in an instant
Hey there! I think I found a solution! I had the same issues, and my system restores even ended up bluescreening.These got me thinking that it's a problem with the physical aspect of your devices. Yes, despite the fact that POST didn't signal any errors, I highly reccomend you take a look at how your SATA/SSD drives are fixed in. In my case, I've messed around with the cables. Usually your drive is fixed by 2 distinct ones. I think one of them thick, with 3 cables at the end, colored red,yellor and black. Thats your SATA power cable, which should be fine if your PC booted up in the first place. The issue in my case was with the second cable. Its red, flat and similar to the cables you can see in old school phones, with spring like rotation. It seemed to sit a little awkward, so I took it out (BEWARE: MAKE SURE YOUR PC ISNT PLUGGED IN) , blew off a little dust, and insterted it back in, this time fitted tighter. I also changed the motherboard port in which I put the 2nd end of the cable. Your motherboard most likely has 1-4 SATA ports which all look similar and serve the same function. In case one was damaged, I decided to put the second half in a different port from the original. Lo and behold, upon booting up, the drive was there once again!
@@iateyourcerealwhileyouread2620 Brother, I answered the original poster with a possible fix. Refer to it cuz I cant be bothered to type it again from my phone, its long.
@@lolololololo160 Hey there. I answered the original poster with a possible fix. Check it out if you're still struggling. I cant type it here since its quite long
@@laggingjaeger1148 yep this is what I literally did 2 days ago and, thank god, it worked like a charm! I appreciate you typing this though❤
My D drive disappeared suddenly from my laptop it's not even in the desk management!
Any idea what's the problem?
Did it solve brother!?
@Wondershare Recoverit Data Recovery :Here is the solution What to do when the secondary drive showed up and then disappeared?.
The third method works. But the next day my secondary drive not showing again. I went to disk management___Action-----Rescan disks for 3 times. Restarted PC for 3 times. The secondary Drive appeared .Then I highlighted and Format it for 2 times .Now the secondary drive is showing up to this time. I did not change the secondary drive path name. I kept as "D". I think the DVD drive and secondary drive conflicting the name "D" or Win10 wanted to save in CLOUD. Cheers.
Thanks Michael couldn't find my drive but eliminated all the options, I think the drive has failed.....that's life.
i follow everything you see but still i cant find local d in my computer thats 2tb missing
same here i already did all the tricks but nothings happem
@@emersongarcia2512 what to do? any solutions? pls help
Same
My second hard drive is not showing in my computers.
And in disk management it is showing as missing. What should I do? I thought it was due to sata cable but no i chnged the sata cable but still its not showing.
Great video. I actually just shut computer down, unplugged, plugged back in, switched on and d drive back!!!! Relieved!
None of the solutions work.
Have you tried powering off the pc and then starting it
Very good video, easy to follow all the solutions.
I had a missing D disk after installation of windows 10 on my laptop, but through your video I managed retreiving it. Thanks a lot! :D
can you make video of my problem.i download 100 gb file in my hdd and now my hdd gone
System Restore works only about 10% of the time since it came out. Cleaned my computer, and my physical hard drive disappeared. Been using that drive for back-ups for years, now it's gone. Can't even remember what brand it was. There are no loose SATA cables or disconnected power cables, it just disappeared. My Bios shows all SATA ports as working.
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After using photoshop for a while i noticed it was freezing a lot and my D Drive as maxed out at 100% and after that my D Drive just 'Disappeared'. Ever since, my D Drive would be showing in my file explorer but when i try to open something on it, the disk usage goes to 100% and the Drive disappears again. If you've had a similar experience then please reply
i got similar problem, i was using adobe premiere pro and when i did some editing, program suddenly freeze for a 10 seconds then worked normal. But when i try to open a Steam game, it showed that my D drive is missing. I disassembled the computer, removed the ssd then plugged back and it worked somehow. Now having the same problem, gonna do it again :(
apparently my hard drive was vibrating and making strange noises. is it broken?
Hi there, thank you for your question. If your hard drive is vibrating and making strange noises, it is likely a sign of hardware issues, and there is a possibility that the drive is failing or has already failed.
Hi Michael,
Good Day, first of all thanks alot for this informative video, i really loved your content. I have tried all your steps that you have mentioned in this video, but unfortunately it did not fix my issue. So what worked for me is as below:
1. I tried to update all the pending windows updates along with the firmware for devices. You can check if you have any pending updates by navigating from: Start-> Settings-> Update and Security-> Windows Update
If you have any pending updates on firmware DO FINISH those updates because it what fixed my issue.
2. (optional) Try reconneing you hard drive cables in the laptop and do a restart.
Kindly Pin my comment as it would be helpful to other people if you can.
Cheers!
Soooooo have u got it back orr? Having same problem
Thank you for posting this comment. None of the other methods were working for me, but I checked the updates. Did find various pending and updated all. After restart, my D drive came back as it was.
A big thanks!!!
Thank you so much for this comment.. This method worked. Just saved my life. Phew!
Thank you so much sir, can't believe just changing a letter saved all my games
I have a question. To those who were successful with step 1 does the rescan process tell you by any means that it is done scanning or not? Like some sort of announcement or declare so I know the rescan didn't work.
For me the rescan button was grayed out
i tried different settings. and my D drive showed up and then disappeared after shutting down my pc. This has happened 3 times
Are you part of the windows insider program? After signing up for windows insider program im facing the issue
Same here
Windows 11 damaged my d drive
same here, when I restart my laptop the d disappeared again, any solutions?
Hi, i have a bit of weird problem here ( at least for me ). Whenever i open 1 certain game ( just say it game a ), it always start to responding after 5 - 10 minutes playing. And after force close it ( since after waiting for 20 minutes or so the game still stop responding ), my storage drive that i use to store all the said game files, except for the said game launcher that stored on drive C by default, also stop responding. And whenever i tried to shutting down my pc, it takes longer than usual for my PC to turn off ( around 10 minutes or so ).
And here is the weird part. At first, i thought " dang....another faulty storage drive", but after i open a couple of musics, films, documents, even run another games that also stored on the very same storage, nothing happening. It run normally and i can shutting down like i usually do ( normally it takes only about 5 - 10 seconds to shutting down my pc )
Where did you get this game? Lol
i installed a program to move C drive files and games to D drive after i realised it was max 500mb free moving. i deleted the program called AOMEI. looked for another program called easeUS same thing 500mb max moving space for free so i deleted the program again. i stopped searching and REALISED I LOST 3500 GB OF SPACE. MY GAMES AND MILION FILES GOT DELETED ITS JUST GONE I ONLY HAVE A FEW FILES LEFT!!!!!!! WTF IS THIS HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE my C drive is an ssd 250gb and my D drive is 4TB. 4000 GB
My problem is it doesn't show because Windows says it's not initialized. I don't want to lose the files, but I fear the disk is faulty, or at least it's been corrupted somehow. Happened with a couple of them already. Trying to get something out of it still. But strangely there's little information about this on the Internet... Thanks.
I cant find my drive d missing how ??? I cant find it all of them
This video is a savior and of course got to learn few tricks. I found my missing drive after doing a rescan. Thank you for sharing this! :-)
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My hard drives aren't showing up in disk manager or anything else except bios. When I first booted up the PC they showed up.
None of these are solutions... just clean the yellow copper of your disk with an eraser and the problem will disappear.👍
Thanks the last one method works for me. Really appreciate your straight forward instruction.
I have a problem when I copied an SSD hard drive with a copy of Windows 10 and made it master and installed another hard drive, this HDD did not appear for me, knowing that the first has 240 GB and the second has 450 GB, and if I install the second master, it appears normally, is there any help?
same
The 5th solution worked for me! Something borked my files and I had to reinstall windows. When I did and was reinstalling my apps I noticed my D drive wasn't there.
I don't even know how much I should be thankful to you
Rescan did not work for me. So i went to Disk Management, found the affected drive at the bottom >> Right click on it >> Change Drive Letter >> Add >> Selected "D:" drive again. It worked like a charm.
In my case my pc suddenly crash and then my screen turn blue, so i restart my pc then my disk dissapear , I TRY ALL THE METHOD BUT IT DOESN'T WORK , I JUST WAITED FOR A DAY OR SO , IT CAME BACK FOR SOME REASON , JUST LET IT COOK
oh my god! I was panicking, so I just restarted my laptop when I was just about to watch this, and it came back! should I still do some of the things mentioned here?
Nothing is working for me , can you provide me what can I do to get it back please
you are awesome in this whole youtube there was no video which fixed this problem only you had done it.
Thanks a lot
Happy to help.
The "rescan disk " worked out for me, tysm!!
First time I am commenting, for me it just seems like my drive was just erased or something but your video save my money and tension you doing great work 😉😉👌👌
Not sure if someone will read this comment or not but leaving this here in case it helps someone
Go to your bios settings and see if the drives are detected at all in my case just running a hard drive check/memory test solved the issue when all of the instructions in this video failed
I'm a musician and for two days I was working hard on my project and every sound pack and every VST was in my D folder. When I want to restore it wants to throw me back to 2 days ago but in 2 days I've done looots of things and I can't lose them. WTF is this seriously. Why this even happens? And also my computer started to open slow and I'm even doubtful that if I restore 2 days ago it would save my disk or not.
not to be rude but, the non of solutions them actually got me the drive back (restarting sometimes does).
if my drive is lost then I have to restart with a chance to get it back I made a backup when it was there and the next time it disappeared the recovery did not help.
also making the drive have another letter does not fix the issue.
and when my drive I gone I cant even scan for the drives (solution one)
ill just reboot it a few times and then hope it wont just gives up after some time.
Today i got this problem..and i watched your video and i recovered my disk ..im so happy..tnku for ur videos
im like half way through the video and none of these work and like system restore requires clicking on the file name and its not there because its missing
my drive is gone completely it is plugged in and was working before i restarted to update, now its not in my device manager, i cant rescan for it, Unhiding doesnt work.
I tried all these and the SSD from SK Hynix which was showing up no longer does!! I was able to detect it with Device Manager and did a Clean using DiskPart. But the SSD no longer appears! The last time it was showing up, it was going in and out of File Manager!!
when i go to disk management i cant see my D disk there is only C and CD - ROM, nothing else. and nothing shows up when i rescan it, please help
Hi there, thank you for your question! First, check the cable and power supply to ensure they are properly connected and functioning correctly. Next, check for any drive errors using the Disk Management tool and try reformatting the drive or performing a disk check if necessary. If the issue persists, try connecting the external hard drive to a different USB port or computer to see if it's recognized.
@@RecoveritDataRecoverySoftware can you link me this disk managment tool, where can i find it?
thanks
@@RecoveritDataRecoverySoftware can you tell me
If you are using a Windows computer, you can find the Disk Management tool by following these steps:
Press the Windows key + X on your keyboard.
In the menu that appears, select "Disk Management".
The Disk Management tool will open, displaying a list of all the storage devices connected to your computer.
Alternatively, you can also search for "Disk Management" in the Windows search bar or in the Control Panel.
Nothing works for me, I followed another tutorial wich told me to uninstall the drive if there was no updates available. Which I did, restarted my computer but now my drive is nowhere to be found... I am completely f****d and I don't know what to do. I NEED HELP
Tip just hit ur computer a couple times then restart it, 100% will work
I tried doing the first option of RESCAN....I got it back....but after restarting system again only c: drive and DVD drive is visible.....how to solve this....I am on window 7...
I think I have a worse problem. I was playing a game and suddenly my computer just shut off. I smelled a weird burning smell coming out of my vents and I thought my whole computer died. I was able to turn it back on and it booted up just fine but then I noticed a bunch of blank icons on my desktop. I opened up This PC and where drive D should have been there was a box that says CD-ROM instead. Disk Management shows no drive D and system restore did nothing. I'm assuming that my drive D just died on me.
By any chance? Was your charging cable plugged in? It couldve been the cable that has blown off due to high power
System restore worked well after 20 hours i worked without any progress, just found youre Video and that helps me, Thanks a lot
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931gb from my drive is completely missing even from the disk management utility and also my group policy editor is gone
Hello. Nothing worked. My D and E drive just disappeared. Please help.
Nothing is working. In the last solution...When Looking For D drive it shows "G" but no media showing. If I click on ADD...Assign the following letter will NOT highlight. Cannot assign a new letter. What do I do
I have 2 of 4 drives that come and go as they please in tandem. Replaced the power supply to no avail. new pc with 2 working old drives. can't be sata cable because they are individual, and were working on the old system. I'm at a loss.
My harddisk is not getting detected... I tried all your methods.. You explained very nicely.. But I was not successful... I don't want to loose my data.
You gotta change the HDD since you been using it for too long
Well done Sir thank you so much, I got back my partition D after changing the drive letter paths
Any way thank you so much and may God bless u
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thanx man thanx thanx thanx i want to thanku mannnnn 1st solution solver my problem and my xhausting day
Thank you so much for this viedo. I tried all the steps from the video but the D drive is still not showing up. Is that mean my D drive might be broken?
tried all the methods but still unable to recover my HD 2TB, won't give up will keep looking for other options.
This did not work for me until I removed the disk, and cleaned the dust and updated my window
My ssd it's show up just when I start up the pc.. But when I restart it disappeared..
Thank you. I did restore the system and it’s back.
Thank you very much for sharing this video. Though none actually works for me but as i read comments in here and from other videos I saw someone's comment that he just turned off his computer for a few minutes and turned it on. I did the same...bwalaahh it actually works!!! I got my drive D & E back!! just sharing this.. might also works on others. Good luck guys!
@5:47 worked for me. Windows file explorer wasn't able to recognise the external hadr drive as there was no letter assigned to it.
My D drive show but not a read and I am follow to and rescane D drive but my D drive is Chand path RAW how to change NTFS
Thank you I spent an hour trying to figure this out and taking apart myy thinking this was a connection problem it was disk 0.
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Number 3 worked for me.
I subscribed, and thank you sir!
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I have just one disk, ssd. My ssd hard disk was divided into c and d. c contains the operating system. One day, when I turned off the computer and turned it on, I saw that the local disk D had disappeared. I'm sure I didn't delete local disk d. Has anyone experienced this? How can I solve it?
I have a Very Old Iomega Barracuda External Gard Drive. I have followed ALL the mentioned Advice notes in this Video and yet Nothing works at all. I also bought a USB 3.0 Sata&IDE Hard Drive Converter as I thought that this would Help. I connected the Converter to the Barracuda then to the PC. Turned the PC On and WOW I could see all the Lost Files on the Iomega once again. I then ran a Virus Check straight away on the Found Files on the Iomega. After running the Virus Check I can No Longer see the Iomega External Drive at all. Not even Disk Management can see the Drive at all. I have tried ALL the Variations on this Video and Nothing seems to Bring back the Iomega Drive at all. It is working with the Drive Converter as it keeps Buzzing away and Making Clicks now and again as though it wants to do something, But Nothing Showing Up On This Pc, No other Drives Visible anywhere. I was So Happy before running the Virus Check but Now Back to Seeing Nothing again. Can Anyway Help at ALL. Appreciated for your time and The Above Video has been followed to every Option. Many Thanks.
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