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D: drive disappeared

Anonymous
2018-08-12T10:09:05+00:00

I was playing Civ VI when the screen froze. Has happened before without causing problems. I noticed that the 'beep' sounds (every ten second or so) didn't come from the TV but from the PC. There wes also a clicking noice (click-click....click-click...click-click). I rebooted my PC (it took 120+ seconds to start instead of the ususal 15-20 second) and the D: drive is completely gone. I have run all sorts of scans and checks and all tests come out clean. D-drive is still gone, also in 'fail safe mode'. 

I use Windows 10 on a Dell XPS 8500 from 2012 with one disk only.

What can I do that doesn't involve reinstalling Windows and all of my apps and other programs?

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-08-12T14:20:42+00:00

    Yeah... I just ordered a new disk. Seagate, Baracuda 2TB ~ £ 50. 

    Bye bye, and thanks again.

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  2. DaveM121 891.9K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2018-08-12T13:38:36+00:00

    Hi Malte, glad to Help . . .

    We need a new Team as well as a manager - been a few bad years !

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  3. DaveM121 891.9K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2018-08-12T11:18:00+00:00

    Hi Malte,

    If you right click that Disc 0 (Ukendt) what options do you get?

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-08-12T10:46:07+00:00

    Er... what happened to the screenshot I posted? Once more:

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  5. DaveM121 891.9K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2018-08-12T10:33:57+00:00

    Hi Malte,

    Can I assume you have a physically separate C Drive and D Drive or are they partitions on the same drive?

    This ticking you heard, was it constant like tic - tic or was it intermittent?

    Open Disk Management (accessible by right clicking your Start Button)

    Please post a screenshot of that window . . .

    If they are physically separate drives:

    Boot your PC into BIOS

    Do you see that second drive under system information?

    Then back in Windows,

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