Internal drive (D:) changed to disk 0, and I cannot initialize it.

Question

Basically the title.

Answer 1

Hello

Thank you for your question and reaching out. I can understand you are having query\issues related to Disk changed to disk 0.

There can be some Internal hardware issue with this Disk itself.

Please turn off your computer completely and attach this disk cables to different ports.

Start your computer in Safe mode and try to scan disk for errors using below command

chkdsk /f /r D:\

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Answer 2

Double post

Answer 3

Which operating system is installed on the computer?

What do you see when the computer is powered on?

Did you want to install a new drive with Windows or as a storage drive?

Did you want to modify drive letters?

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If the computer can boot to the desktop then post a share link of disk management:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2503-how-post-screenshot-disk-management.html

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Boot to the BIOS > view disk drives > take pictures > post images or share links into this thread

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Open disk management > click view > click show hidden devices > manually expand all rows > look for any row displaying a yellow triangle with black exclamation mark or unknown device > post images or share links into this thread

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Open file explorer > this PC > post images or share links into this thread using one drive, drop box, or google drive

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Run this bat script and post a share link into this thread using one drive, drop box, or google drive:

(bat scripts by default prompt antivirus software and require manual overrides)

https://www.tenforums.com/attachments/bsod-crashes-debugging/355861d1640707960-batch-files-use-bsod-debugging-diskparinfo.bat