[SOLVED] D drive is suddenly not showing ?

[Rahee|]

In Device Manager it is showing as working perfectly.

In Disk Management it is showing as Disk1 not initialized & 2TB storage Unallocated.
When I right-click on it, all the options are greyed out.

https://ibb.co/CpjvHZVq

 

[Lutfij]

If this disk in the image is the same disk mentioned in this thread;

Question - CrystalDiskinfo says 672 reallocated sector count, what this mean?

CrystalDiskInfo shows yellow on my HDD and says Reallocated sector count = 672 Current pending sector count = 8 Uncorrectable sector count = 8 SSD Good 77% Please tell me what this mean https://ibb.co/CKsy3Q4 https://ibb.co/DMRrDLP

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then you should've backed up your data off of the drive.

 

[Rahee|]

Yes it's the same one. Another question is, can I use a USB drive as my primary Windows system drive. Will there be any issue?

 

[johnbl]

Yes it's the same. Another question is can I use USB drive as my primary windows system drive. Will there be any issue?

you can use windows on a usb drive. I would not recommend it.
There are issues but they depend on many factors like which controller the drive has inside. These are relatively slow devices. A cheap SSD would be much better. It used to be that windows does not verify data on USB devices and that causes a bunch of problems over time. you used to have to turn verification on manually and people never knew this and would end up with corrupted files. When they turned on verification the drive would run much slower.

 

[Zerk2012]

Yes it's the same. Another question is can I use USB drive as my primary windows system drive. Will there be any issue?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w34x1kBZN6c

 

[USAFRet]

Another question is can I use USB drive as my primary windows system drive. Will there be any issue?

Do you like watching paint dry?

 

[evermorex76]

Do you like watching paint dry?

As long as I can breathe in the fumes while it happens.

 

[Rahee|]

you can use windows on a usb drive. I would not recommend it.
There are issues but they depend on many factors like which controller the drive has inside. These are relatively slow devices. A cheap SSD would be much better. It used to be that windows does not verify data on USB devices and that causes a bunch of problems over time. you used to have to turn verification on manually and people never knew this and would end up with corrupted files. When they turned on verification the drive would run much slower.

Yes I think USB is a bad idea, it's slow plus I have seen many times my USB gets disconnected and then reconnects. I don't know what will happen if I am running windows from USB and it gets disconnected and then reconnect.

 

[Rahee|]

Today I restarted my PC and my D drive has started working now

 

[JeffreyP55]

In Device Manager it is showing as working perfectly.

In Disk Management it is showing as Disk1 not initialized & 2TB storage Unallocated.
When I right-click on it, all the options are greyed out.

https://ibb.co/CpjvHZVq

If you haven't done so, backup all data. D may just disappear again, maybe permanently.

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