Windows 10: Unable to recover missing partition: Error “You need to format the disk in Drive D”

Here is the scenario: On November 6, 2018 the October Windows 10 update was applied to my system. At the time I had a SATA docking station with 2 drives inserted that was used for backing up data. Some of the data on one of the drives was not backed up anywhere else. One of the drives was new, purchased within 30 days of the incident. The Thermaltake docking station was left plugged into the USB port on my Dell Precision 5510 laptop. Both drives were readable and usable prior to the update. Dell laptop drivers were relatively up to date, as of July 2018.


> On bootup, neither drive was recognizable by Windows 10. When attempt to access them via Explorer, the message "You need to format the disk in Drive D: before you can use it" (2 drive letters were involved, D: and E

> A reboot of the system did not resolve the issue

> Taking the docking station to another Windows 10 system had the same result

> Other drives work fine in the docking station.

> Using tools like Mini Tool Partition Wizard have not been able to recover the NTFS partitions. I have only had partial success in recovering the data

using EASUSE partition recovery software.


As a business user this event / result was unwelcome.


I am wondering if there is anything else I can do or if Microsoft has tools that can be used to reverse the lost partition on the drives.


Please reference this for acknowledgement of issues with this update: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/11/13/resuming-the-rollout-of-the-windows-10-october-2018-update/ and note that the date was November 13th, 2018.




***Modified the title from Windows10 October 2018 update - Partitions corrupted post-boot on SATA drives in USB docking station***

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How To Format A Write Protected Flash Memory ?

¿You already tried this one?...

Run CMD


1. diskpart
2. list disk

Then in the 3º step, put the correct number of disk in the list for the usb flash (if it's listed in disk 3, then you'll have to write select disk 3).

2. select disk #
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

with that commands you will format the flash drive in fat32, if you have a large drive you can select also "format fs=ntfs" in step 7.

good luck!

 

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