Hi gang, I have an older Lenovo T520 laptop, it is configured with a smaller SSD for the OS c: to boot off of, and a secondary Seagate HDD d: in an adapter tray. I've had this config for years and it's been working fine, of course all my secondary programs and important files are on d:
Today after getting off the plane for an important business trip the OS won't recognize the d: drive anymore, it's now listing it as though it were a CD drive. I had that dreaded feeling the drive was toast. The files are backed up at home, but I'm away and need the files for a client.
Via the Lenovo toolbox I am able to do a diagnostics scan on both disk drives, both scans come back showing things are ok.. when it is scanning the HDD I can hear it spinning away, so the drive isn't bad, and the system sees it fine. I went and removed the HDD, restarted and the toolbox just showed the 1 SSD installed. Stuck it back in and the laptop sees it... but what is with the OS? No config changes were made since it worked fine yesterday.
What could have possibly happened and how can I fix this?
UPDATE: After another reboot the OS sees the drive now but has gone and changed the drive letter to E: It still shows this phantom CD drive as D:, so I can't rename the HDD from e: to d:, and there is no CD drive showing in disk management (so I can't change it from d: to something else)
UPDATE2: Looks like the phantom CD drive was PowerISO related. Disabled it and d: was released, then I was able to rename the drives. Hopefully this thread does others some good in the future
Today after getting off the plane for an important business trip the OS won't recognize the d: drive anymore, it's now listing it as though it were a CD drive. I had that dreaded feeling the drive was toast. The files are backed up at home, but I'm away and need the files for a client.
Via the Lenovo toolbox I am able to do a diagnostics scan on both disk drives, both scans come back showing things are ok.. when it is scanning the HDD I can hear it spinning away, so the drive isn't bad, and the system sees it fine. I went and removed the HDD, restarted and the toolbox just showed the 1 SSD installed. Stuck it back in and the laptop sees it... but what is with the OS? No config changes were made since it worked fine yesterday.
What could have possibly happened and how can I fix this?
UPDATE: After another reboot the OS sees the drive now but has gone and changed the drive letter to E: It still shows this phantom CD drive as D:, so I can't rename the HDD from e: to d:, and there is no CD drive showing in disk management (so I can't change it from d: to something else)
UPDATE2: Looks like the phantom CD drive was PowerISO related. Disabled it and d: was released, then I was able to rename the drives. Hopefully this thread does others some good in the future
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