Can someone tell me how my D Drive can just disappear? I did have some viruses and I thought that they might be the problem, but I got rid of them and I still have no D Drive. Anyone have any ideas as to what could have happened?
Can someone tell me how my D Drive can just disappear? I did have some viruses and I thought that they might be the problem, but I got rid of them and I still have no D Drive. Anyone have any ideas as to what could have happened?
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What motherboard do you have?
Argggh! What the heck is a motherboard?
I have a Dell Pentium 4 and anything else I really don't remember and I'm at work right now so I'll have to wait till I get home to check.
Hello Pika Art by Dr Unne ~~~ godhatesfraggles
Check if Windows still sees the drive first in Computer Management (assuming you're using XP) - right click My Computer > Manage > Device Manager and see if it's listed under DVD/CD-ROM drives, and without problems (the yellow ! or red X).
If that's fine, look in Disk Management on the left, and give it a drive letter in the list on the bottom right - if it's already got one, remove it and reassign, and see if that fixes it.
Thank you, cl_out. I have a D Drive again.
Hello Pika Art by Dr Unne ~~~ godhatesfraggles
Haha, I was making it more complicated than it actually was.
Haha. Yes you were.
I'd still like to know why it disappeared in the first place though.
Hello Pika Art by Dr Unne ~~~ godhatesfraggles
Only thing I can think of is you uninstalled Easy CD Creator, but I don't know if you had that What exactly did you fix anyway, was it just adding the letter, or did you remove then add it?
I don't even have Easy CD Creator installed so I couldn't uninstall it. I'm guessing that the virus I had must have done it.
To fix it, I did just what you said. My Computer > Manage > Device Manger > DVD/CD-ROM drives and then I <i>Enabled</i> the drive because it was disabled for some reason. It had a red x on it. That's it.
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The IDE driver or whatever died on my old comp so it doesn't even recognize that I have any hard drives despite having two. I need to take those drives out and transfer the data to this one some time...