Windows 10: D Drive missing in Bios

I don't what is the problem but it happened before and it reappeared and suddenly it is gone again. What is the possible cause of this? And also in the case of this, the boot from start it became slow.

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D drive missing (and reappearing, and missing)

Hello, this is Emily.

Have you observed this issue in BIOS? If not, I would suggest so. I suspect the issue is more on the hardware side, by checking to see if D drive is also missing in BIOS can help confirm that.

 

D Drive Missing After Fragmentation

Hi dear, My name is Erfan and I'll be more than happy to help you out today!

I'm sorry to hear that you're experiencing this issue.

I suggest you try the steps that I mentioned below:

Check your BIOS for drive detection.

Check the connections between your D drive and computer.

Check Disk Management for the D drive and assign a drive letter if necessary.

Run a disk check on the D drive for errors.

Try using a data recovery tool to retrieve any data from the missing drive.

I hope this information could help you to fix this issue!

Please don't hesitate to let me know if you need any further assistance.

Kind regards,

Erfan

 

D drive

Hi,

Based on the details you have provided us, it appears that there might be some corrupted contents on the said partition. We can also consider that this is caused by a virus.

For us to check if a certain virus is hiding your files, kindly follow the steps below:

• Type Command prompt in the search bar.
• Type-in the following command:
  
  attrib -h -r -s /s /d D:\*.*
• Press Enter to execute the command.

If you think that there is nothing important stored in it, then we suggest that you reformat your D drive so that you can use the free space for important files.

You can follow the steps below to start with the process:

• Click on the File Explorer.
• Select This PC.
• Right-click on your D drive, then click on Format.
• Follow the on-screen process to finish formatting the partition.

Let us know how it goes so that we can further assist you.