Recent content by hywaystar

When I install WIN fresh every year or so, I delete ALL partitions I have, wipe them out and start fresh

TY yeah thought same thing but how in the world after a total format of PC would that issue remain? Just a mystery to me haha

Here is my PC after a reboot, and it shows my D as "new volume" and I DID NOT assign letter, left it this way to get screens for you Disk Management Crystal DiskInfo Device Manager

I do a fresh install once a year, it has been 11 months, my issue had nothing to do with it tbh. The lost data is no big deal at all. The D drive not being recognized is what I am trying to fix. So you did write a nice funny comment, haha but can you help?

Drive is empty now due to my total format and fresh OS install. Still only shows about about half the time on reboot but Crystal DiskInfo shows "Good" and no errors. Not sure what I did with TestDisk. I think I ran the part that searched for lost drive But still, after a total format and fresh...

I deleted some video files I needed by accident. Did not recover them, only subtitle files. Used Crystal DiskInfo, states "Good" and everything looks normal Event Viewer showed nothing pertaining to drive and getting no noise from drive, never heard one in 4 years from it It is a WD Blue

So I ran "TestDisk" 5 days ago, wanting to recover data on my HDD, D drive. Did not get it but I noticed afterwards on reboots the D drive was missing. I had to go into disk management to assign a letter to it. Well I did a fresh Windows install and formatted my PC and the problem still...