Windows 10: D drive missing and reappearing, and missing

I installed a 2TB PCIe Gen4 3D NAND NVMe M.2 Gaming SSD drive on my laptop a few days ago. On the day of installation, everything was fine and I was able to use the new D drive perfectly. At the end of that day, I ran a Windows update. On the next day when I started my laptop, the D drive was missing, with a blue question mark on its icon. I tried about 10 solutions found online, none worked. D drive is also not showing up in disk management, rescaning doesn't help. I also tried to unhide the drive and run automatic repairs, but nothing changed. On the third day when I started the laptop, the

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windows 10 missing D: drive

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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