second hard drive icon "D" disappeared after reinstalling windows

[lizmike]

second hard drive icon "D" disappeared after reinstalling windows

"C" drive is showing in my computer but the "D" drive is not showing anymore after reinstalling windows

 

[edwar]

Post a screen shot of the complete Disk Management window.

 

[AddRAM]

Are you positive D: was a drive and not just a partition ?

Do you have 2 seperate hard drives on your pc ?

If you did fresh install and deleted all your partitions, you will now only have a c: drive.

 

[edwar]

For most people the word drive could mean either a partition or a physical drive.

Not many computers come with 2 physical disks installed but a lot come with multiple partitions on one physical disk.

Since the OP did a Reinstall of Windows, and he hasn't yet posted a SS of the Disk Management window, I would suspect, Not Assume, the D drive he is referring to was a partition on the one physical disk installed in his system and during the re-install of Windows it got erased and combined into the C Drive/Partition.

But hey what do I know.

 

[AddRAM]

That`s what I said. Still waiting on his return.

 

[lizmike]

The computer does have two physical drives, not a drive with a partition. The Disk Management window now only shows one drive.

 

[edwar]

We need to see a screen shot.
If the system has 2 Physical drives and only one is showing up then the other has failed in some way. But we will not know that until we see a screen shot of the Disk Management window.

 

[lizmike]

This ix my neighbours computer and I cannot get access to it at the moment due to him being unwell. I will post a screenshot when I can in the future. Thank you for your help so far.

 

[AddRAM]

Maybe it has somehow become loose in it`s connections. Does the second hard drive show up in the bios ?