Windows 10: I cannot access my D: driver. The only place I can see it is my File Explorer Home and...

Last night, I was removing some files from my device that were unneeded and they were just not going away for some reason. There were also files in my recycling bin that weren't going away. After doing some digging, I found out I could use Windows PowerShell to force remove these files which worked! I wanted to make sure they were officially gone, so I rebooted my laptop. When I went it the D: driver to check if the files were there, the driver didn't open and it said it wasn't even in my PC. I right clicked the drive and pressed open and this message popped up: "D:\ is unavailable. If the loc

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Quick Access Crashes Explorer

Hi Bill,

Quick Access is a new feature in Windows 10 File Explorer navigation pane which helps users quickly navigate to locations which are frequently used. However, if you're having issues with Quick Access, you can try to disable and enable it. To disable Quick
Access, follow these steps:

• Type File Explorer Option in the search box.
• Click on File Explorer Options.
• Under General tab, choose This PC in the Open File Explorer to: drop down menu.
  
• Uncheck Show recently used files in Quick access and
  Show frequently use folders in Quick access.
• Click Apply an OK.
• Restart the computer and re-enable Quick access.

Let us know how it goes after performing the suggested troubleshooting steps.

 

Windows Explorer Issue-Duplicate D:\ after relocating files

Thank you both for the assistance! For Keith: I created 2 new folders on the D:\ drive as you instructed: Documents and Videos, then I moved the associated files/folders as you instructed into the new folders. I've attached a screenshot of what the directory in Explorer now looks like (note the duplicate D:\ drives under 'This PC'.

For the next step, I want to be sure that I make the correct changes in the registry (and I certainly don't want to make anything worse!). When I open the registry as you instructed, I see under Personal the current Value is D:\. Under My Video it is C:\Users\'my user initials'\Video. Are you suggesting that I rename Personal to D:\Documents, then change the value to the new 'string' that you suggested and rename My Video to D:\Videos, also inserting the new 'string' that you suggested? Again, many, many thanks for your assistance!

 

Drive D appears with question mark in explorer and is not accessible even after updating drivers

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



We understand the difficulties that you are unable to access the D drive on the PC.
In order to get clarity and to assist you accordingly, please reply with the answers to the questions below:

• What is the Version and Build of Windows 10 installed on the PC? (Type
  winver in Windows search/Run command)
• ​Is the D: drive an internal drive or an external hard drive?
• Are you aware of any changes prior to this issue?

Meanwhile, we would suggest you to perform these steps.



Method 1: Run Chkdsk

Checks the file system and file system metadata of a volume for logical and physical errors.
We would suggest you to refer this article and perform
CHKDSK/f on the PC.



Method 2: Update the hardware drivers.

We would suggest you to click on Detect Driver tab beside “Let us analyze your system to find the latest updates” from
Dell Website and follow the onscreen steps. Also, if the Dell
Alienware 15 R2 is running Intel storage, then install and update the

Intel driver



Please help us with the screenshot of the Disk Management window
(Press Windows + X key > Select Disk Management) for further investigation. (Please follow the steps mentioned in the
screenshot posted
by Shawn ‘Cmdr’ Keene on Oct 2, 2015 to post the screenshots.) Do not share any personal information in the screenshots.



Regards,



Aditya Roy

Microsoft Community – Moderator