Windows 10: Can someone explain why my drive D disk is missing and what is the cause of Missing drive?

I done allot of steps and I do observe that on my device manager the HDD driver is grayed out and hidden.

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D Drive Missing After Fragmentation

Hi,

As the title suggests, my D drive has gone missing after fragmentation.

I have tried to rescan disks in disk management, update driver in device manager, uninstalled recent windows updates but still unable to locate my D drive.

Based on event logs, it’s showing me event ID 51.

D drive was able to be fragmented on 1st May 2023 and on 2nd May onwards, it just went missing.

Any idea what else I could do?

Thank you!

 

D Drive Missing After Fragmentation

Hi dear, My name is Erfan and I'll be more than happy to help you out today!

I'm sorry to hear that you're experiencing this issue.

I suggest you try the steps that I mentioned below:

Check your BIOS for drive detection.

Check the connections between your D drive and computer.

Check Disk Management for the D drive and assign a drive letter if necessary.

Run a disk check on the D drive for errors.

Try using a data recovery tool to retrieve any data from the missing drive.

I hope this information could help you to fix this issue!

Please don't hesitate to let me know if you need any further assistance.

Kind regards,

Erfan

 

Missing D: drive

At first the D: drive only had ~35 Mb of 495Mb available space for a 3TB disk.

Did System restore and D: drive went missing. I want to save the data on the drive.

How can I get the drive back and save its data?