D: drive is missing

[BrutalMilky]

My D: drive was open, running and there, I went out of my room for 5 mins, came back and it wasn't there anymore. I found this out when trying to start an app that i had previously saved on the D: drive. Please help me out here, looked everywhere for a fix and nothing so far

 

[BrutalMilky]

This is meant for windows 10 :/

 

[USAFRet]

More info on your system, please.
Is this multiple drives? 2 partitions on a single drive?

A screencap of your Disk Management window would help here.

 

[ss202sl]

maybe the drive is dead? Have you rebooted? Check cabling. Can you see the drive in bios?

 

[Rocky Bennett]

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Question from BrutalMilky : "D: drive is missing"

My D: drive was open, running and there, I went out of my room for 5 mins, came back and it wasn't there anymore. I found this out when trying to start an app that i had previously saved on the D: drive. Please help me out here, looked everywhere for a fix and nothing so far

I think that you should restart your system.

 

[BrutalMilky]

Im running an MSI laptop with two seperate hard drives, C: and D: Ive restarted my system etc. Checked solutions through disk manager but I cant find anything that could help fix the problem.

https://gyazo.com/5634d2e169b1d1a602dd7c70710a4556 <-- Screencap

 

[USAFRet]

Im running an MSI laptop with two seperate hard drives, C: and D: Ive restarted my system etc. Checked solutions through disk manager but I cant find anything that could help fix the problem.

https://gyazo.com/5634d2e169b1d1a602dd7c70710a4556 <-- Screencap

That shows a single physical drive.
Does it appear in the BIOS?

If it does not, then either it is slightly disconnected, or totally broken.

 

[BrutalMilky]

Im not too familiar with what you mean by BIOS mate, could you explain for me?

 

[USAFRet]

Im not too familiar with what you mean by BIOS mate, could you explain for me?

On power up, before the OS starts, you might see the BIOS screen.
Press F12, or F8, or DEL, or whatever keystroke invokes opening up the BIOS.
Navigate around in there until you see a list of the installed physical drives. DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING, just look around.

 

[BrutalMilky]

Alright bud, Ill have a look about now, cheers for the help so far

 

[mjslakeridge]

What is the specific model of your MSI laptop?

 

[BrutalMilky]

Looked in the BIOS but wasnt sure exactly what to look for

 

[BrutalMilky]

msi ms-16h7

 

[mjslakeridge]

msi ms-16h7 appears to be the motherboard model, not the laptop itself. I was wanting the laptop model to verify it indeed had 2 hdd's rather than 1 drive with multiple partitions.

 

[BrutalMilky]

Ah sorry bud, msi gs60 6qe-093uk

 

[BrutalMilky]

I think I have a loose connection, my D: drive has just come up without me doing anything but restarting a few times

 

[mjslakeridge]

OK, so if I am on the correct website, here are the storage specs:

"Storage 1 x 2.5" HDD + 1 x NVMe M.2 SSD by PCIe Gen3 X4 / SATA-SSD Combo"

Is this your laptop?

https://www.msi.com/Laptop/GS60-6QE-Ghost-Pro.html#hero-specification

 

[mjslakeridge]

Can you take another screenshot of your disk management screen with the middle column expanded so we can see the capacity of each drive. I am assuming the C drive where your OS resides is the M.2 SSD and the D drive is a HDD. Here is what the M.2 drive looks like:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147466

 

[BrutalMilky]

https://gyazo.com/0c3b29ecfcf872c8d68550422074372a

 

[USAFRet]

https://gyazo.com/0c3b29ecfcf872c8d68550422074372a

yup...that would indicate a slightly loose connection.

 

[BrutalMilky]

Alright, cheers lads and lasses, good to know whats up with it, atleast it isnt corrupt etc. Thanks all

 

[mjslakeridge]

It looks like the M.2 drive is 128GB rather than 256 GB unless there is a hidden partition. Only 3% free space is not good, you want to leave a minimum 10% of SSD's free.

Hopefully the D drive (Spinner) has a slightly loose connection. If you have any critical files on it, back them up somewhere just to be safe. Don't worry about games and other programs where you have the original installation disks or can download again.

If you are comfortable opening up the back of the laptop to look for a loose connection then you can do that. Otherwise, just keep using it and if it happens again, take it in for repair (I assume it is still under warranty). I don't know if opening it up will void the warranty, someone else here might know.

BTW, that is a very nice laptop!

 

[BrutalMilky]

Alright bud, thanks for the suggestions and help

 

[Pagadalasomasekhar]

This is meant for windows 10 :/

 

[Pagadalasomasekhar]

I want answer