Local Disk D: missing and can't find it anywhere

[fy1ao]

For some reason my Local Disk D: disappeared after i had an issue with my laptop (even though the laptop wasn't really an issue, it was just windows that was acting up) and haven't really been able to recover it for over a year. No one else seems to have this problem and i can't even find it on Disk Management. The only things that come up in disk management are Local disk C & E, System Reserved Partition and Disk 0 partitioned by 3 (but i cannot attach any drive letter to it). I was wondering if it was okay to use System Reserved Partition as a local disk D or if there's a way to get D: again?

 

[CountMike]

System Reserved Partition is created by windows and it's not for general use. Can you post a picture of entire Disk management ?

 

[fy1ao]

System Reserved Partition is created by windows and it's not for general use. Can you post a picture of entire Disk management ?

Here you go:
https://i.imgur.com/Wjc4Rqg.png

 

[CountMike]

System Reserved Partition is created by windows but not necessary if you don't want to roll windows back. It's too small to be of any practical use but it can be formatted and merged with C or E partition.

 

[fy1ao]

System Reserved Partition is created by windows but not necessary if you don't want to roll windows back. It's too small to be of any practical use but it can be formatted and merged with C or E partition.

is there any way to get D: back??

 

[CountMike]

No, that partition (467MB, Healthy, Recovery Partition) is unusable for normal storage and should not have a letter. It's managed by windows and used as part of backup, also updated after any windows build/update.

 

[fy1ao]

No, that partition (467MB, Healthy, Recovery Partition) is unusable for normal storage and should not have a letter. It's managed by windows and used as part of backup, also updated after any windows build/update.

can i somehow get local disk D again if i reset my laptop and remove everything in it?

 

[Peter Martin]

nobody knows what D: was. It may have been a partition, or a physical device. if it's a real device, then it probably failed. you could shrink C: drive partition and create a new drive D: in that space, but you might not want to do that either.

 

[fy1ao]

nobody knows what D: was. It may have been a partition, or a physical device. if it's a real device, then it probably failed. you could shrink C: drive partition and create a new drive D: in that space, but you might not want to do that either.

so basically there's no way to get it back?

 

[CountMike]

How many physical disks do you have ? Check in device manager. If there's no second physical disk (alleged D: disk) and my presumption that one of other partitions on single disk System reserved or other small partition had D: letter than you are better off without that letter because any meddling with those partitions may result in unusable system.