Windows 10: Data Storage Drive Missing after Folder Creation on Windows 10

Hi,


Very recently, my second storage drive on my MSI laptop has disappeared. It was a "Data" drive which I used to store more content.


Before it went missing, in that drive I created a Folder and created a shortcut to that folder, which I then dragged over to my Desktop to use.


A small amount of time later, like 10 minutes, I try to save a Word Document I had been writing, and my "Data" storage drive is now missing.


It still appears in my Quick Access List as D:\, but now has a question mark on top of its icon. I can't access it.


So far I've tried to rescan my disks in Disk Management, but it wasn't able to find it.

I also tried using the "Hardware and Devices Troubleshooter", but it also could not find my lost "Data" drive.


How can I restore this lost storage drive and regain access to its content?

:)

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Storage Space - Parity ( RAID5) - Lost data on creation

Hello...this is confusing.


I installed Windows 10, upgrading from Windows 7. It went fine. Nothing of note in Windows.old.
I wanted to utilise W10 Storage Pool RAID 5 Parity option for data security.
I backed up the static data from my 3 x 1.5 TB disks onto a large internal drive.
I checked the windows copy with both synctoy and freefilesync for completeness and zero errors\omissions. Twice. All was OK.

I built the RAID 5 - Parity set some 2.75Gb with the old 3 x 1.5TB drives. I transferred the data (c.1.8TB) back across, from the internal drive to populate the RAID 5 set (painfully slow). Again I checked for completeness with synctoy & freefilesync. No apparent errors.

PROBLEM

The folder M reports 913Gb of data in 1782 folders with 4171 files.
This folder is identical on the original source backup internal drive and the Storage Pool.

However when I look at the individual subfolders within M I can only locate some 151 folders with 831 files totalling c.280Gb. All the other folders are empty. Or are reporting empty. Over 600Gb of data is reported, by size & file numbers at the top level but is not in the folders (apparently).

I have run chkdsk /f on the Storage Pool and the Internal Backup disk. No errors.
I have run SFC /SCANNOW . Some Windows Resource Protection errors but no trace of missing files.

Is this that these files are hidden ? Has WIndows 10 altered all my file attributes ?
Am I missing an obvious trick ?
Did the folder structure copy across but omitted to copy the file content ?
Why did synctoy & freefilesync not pick this up ?
Why does the folder M report files/folders/size that is inconsistent with what I can locate ?

Confused. Looks like a Quantum RAID 5.
The very act of its creation destroys the data it was set up to secure.

Any bright ideas welcome. Thanks for reading.

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Upgrading my data drive HDD

I am not the one actually set it up for me I had geek squad do it for me because I didn't want to mess it up. but the folders that are listed in the data drive is
program data
steam
users
windows apps
razar soft wear