Why did the recent Microsoft update remove my D drive?

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Lakemine 21 Oct @ 3:35am

I have tons of games installed, but on Steam they say I have to reinstall them all, even though I was just playing them last night. I have restarted multiple times and still nothing is working.

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emoticorpse 21 Oct @ 3:37am

Check in Disk Management and see if it's still there just needs a drive letter assigned

Lakemine 21 Oct @ 3:42am

Originally posted by emoticorpse:
Check in Disk Management and see if it's still there just needs a drive letter assigned

Nope. Its not there either. It's only showing the C drive.

smallcat 21 Oct @ 3:48am

is it another drive that has hiccups

Jaunitta 🌸 21 Oct @ 4:07am

Is D drive usb?
Plug it in wait. If plugged in unplug then plug in again.
How old is drive can stop working after 6 or more years.

emoticorpse 21 Oct @ 4:17am

It might have been an external drive (I just assumed it was a partition on the same drive as C:) but I have to say OP if it was an actual separate drive try to see if you can disable them/unplug them if you do a Windows update (especially full re-install) in the future.

ChickenBalls 21 Oct @ 4:28am

because its windows 11
get used to it

Lakemine 21 Oct @ 4:44am

Originally posted by smallcat:
is it another drive that has hiccups

Nope.

Lakemine 21 Oct @ 4:44am

Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:
Is D drive usb?
Plug it in wait. If plugged in unplug then plug in again.
How old is drive can stop working after 6 or more years.

nope. internal, laptop. only about 2 years old.

Lakemine 21 Oct @ 4:45am

Originally posted by ChickenBalls:
because its windows 11
get used to it

its win 10, cant upgrade to win 11

Lixire 21 Oct @ 4:51am

Assuming C and D are separate drives..
Does the BIOS recognize the other drive to begin with?
I don't think that's the update which caused it but rather a bad timing with something else

If you don't see the drive in the BIOS then you may want to open up the machine, disconnect the drive and re-plug it as a test.

Last edited by Lixire; 21 Oct @ 4:52am

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smallcat 21 Oct @ 4:51am

So , it s one disk with 2 partitions - C and D , right . It s a SSD or a HDD ? does Disk Management show any free space

Last edited by smallcat; 21 Oct @ 4:52am

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PopinFRESH 21 Oct @ 6:46am

Originally posted by Lixire:
Assuming C and D are separate drives..
Does the BIOS recognize the other drive to begin with?
I don't think that's the update which caused it but rather a bad timing with something else

If you don't see the drive in the BIOS then you may want to open up the machine, disconnect the drive and re-plug it as a test.

^ this?

Originally posted by smallcat:
So , it s one disk with 2 partitions - C and D , right . It s a SSD or a HDD ? does Disk Management show any free space

^ or this?

Open Disk Management and post a screen capture so people can see the disk configuration

And/or install CPUz and run the hardware validator then post the results link here so people can see what hardware is being seen by the system to help point you in the right direction.

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