Windows 10: my win 10 OS has scrambled the contents of my C: and D: drives how can i fix this

my win 10 OS has scrambled the contents of my C: and D: drives how can i fix this

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Win 10 Parallel Installation - Win 8.1 in C: Drive & Win 10 in D: Drive

You can do this but it is a little trickier. Here is my advice:

• If I understand correctly, you have 2 partitions at this moment: a drive C were your current windows resides and a drive D, probably with your files (this is also my setup)
• The first step will be to create a partition for Windows 10 (cut part of drive D). You can do this in disk manager. If you don't know how, please ask and I will give you the details
• Create a system image of your current Windows
• Upgrade your current Windows to Windows 10 (you cannot skip this part if you want the free upgrade)
• Restore your previous Windows to it's current location (partition)
• Do a clean install of Windows 10 in the partition you reserved in step 2

Windows 10 will see that you have another windows installation and add it to the boot manager. At this point you will be able to boot both Windows versions

 

D drive

Hi,

Based on the details you have provided us, it appears that there might be some corrupted contents on the said partition. We can also consider that this is caused by a virus.

For us to check if a certain virus is hiding your files, kindly follow the steps below:

• Type Command prompt in the search bar.
• Type-in the following command:
  
  attrib -h -r -s /s /d D:\*.*
• Press Enter to execute the command.

If you think that there is nothing important stored in it, then we suggest that you reformat your D drive so that you can use the free space for important files.

You can follow the steps below to start with the process:

• Click on the File Explorer.
• Select This PC.
• Right-click on your D drive, then click on Format.
• Follow the on-screen process to finish formatting the partition.

Let us know how it goes so that we can further assist you.

 

new win 10 dual drive pc - D:\ is not shown

Hi

1st - I have a new win 10 pc - HP Envy came installed with a1T hd (D:\) and a 128G ssd (C:\).

Clicking 'file explorer', 'This pc' does not show the D drive. After reading posts went to 'device manager' the D drive is not shown under 'disk drives' as described but under 'portable devices'. Did a right click on it and it says 'device working'. Went
to 'disk management', it shows a Disk 0 (C:\ ?) and a Disk 1 (D:\ ?) as 'unallocated'. I've read posts suggesting changing the drive letter D to something else as a fix - but I would rather keep the drive designated D as it is now. Other posts said to right
click the 'unallocated'. I did that and was asked to format the drive. At that point I stopped, I'm sure the drive already came formatted and thought this might be an error ( didn't want to cause more problems ).

2 Questions - Should I have continued? Also, there was a single option to click 'single volume', if clicked, would that prevent future partitioning of the drive?

2nd - In 'this pc' it lists a single USB drive twice when plugged in. Is this the way it should be or is it an error? My old win 7 didn't do that. How to fix it?

Prior to all this I've had a couple of issues and ended up doing a clean install of win 10 - might this have caused the problem(s) ?

thx in advance - all help is appreciated,