Windows 10: Woke up to a missing D Drive

I keep my files on a D Drive Internal Hard Drive on a Dell Desktop

I woke to have the entire drive either deleted or missing

Under Disk Management it DOES NOT show up

I DONOT have a restore point unfortunately


Please walk me through steps to get this back

:)

 

Missing D: drive

So today, I woke up and found my D: drive was completely missing. All of the game launchers I had which had games on the D: drive said that those games were uninstalled. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Missing D Drive

I woke to discover my D Drive had disappeared. I had been out of town for two weeks. Updated my computer. Now No D Drive this morning.

 

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.