Where'd my D: Drive go?

HappyHambo · Mar 19, 2015

I just restored my laptop back to factory settings because my HDD was full of useless junk. After deleting some random pre-installed programs I went in to 'My Computer' to check my drives and i noticed my D: drive had just disappeared. I went into the computer management to rename the other disk as D: the option to change it was grayed out (It's not marked as NTFS either if that helps). Any help is appreciated!

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ronintexas · Mar 19, 2015

Is your D: drive a DVD drive, an external HDD, internal HDD or other type of drive?

JackNaylorPE · Mar 19, 2015

Do you see it in BIOS ?

Do you see it if you tell it (Disk Management) to "rescan disks"

rgd1101 · Mar 19, 2015

Did you create the partition? sound like the factory have the whole disk as C drive.

USAFRet · Mar 19, 2015

If this was a single physical disk with 2 partitions (C and D), and you did a factory reset via whatever functionality the manufacturer provides.....that D partition is now gone.

HappyHambo · Mar 20, 2015

ronintexas :

Whoops, accidentally made this best answer. Its an internal HDD

HappyHambo · Mar 20, 2015

rgd1101 :

under volume it is blank, under layout it is simple, under type it's basic, under file system its blank and under status it says Healthy (Primary Partition)

HappyHambo · Mar 20, 2015

rgd1101 :

Thinking about it when it asked what set-up i wanted i didn't click HD with 2 partitions. Might be the problem, is there anyway to use it without resetting?

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