Emergency. My D: drive is GONE

[DefoNotJim]

My D drive all of a sudden wont show. I went into disk manager to take a look and it says "A device which does not exist was specified".

 

I have no clue what to do please help.

[Electronics Wizardy]

What drive is it?

 

Restore backups?

[Mnky313]

1 minute ago, DefoNotJim said:

My D drive all of a sudden wont show. I went into disk manager to take a look and it says "A device which does not exist was specified".

 

I have no clue what to do please help.

Check the SATA/SATA power cables, maybe one just came loose.  Does it show up in BIOS?

[Virgule]

Is the drive shown in the BIOS ? That's the first thing to check

[5x5]

Check SMART chart - this is a symptom of imminent Hard Drive failure

[DefoNotJim]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

What drive is it?

 

Restore backups?

Im not sure how to do/check that?

Just now, Mnky313 said:

Check the SATA/SATA power cables, maybe one just came loose.  Does it show up in BIOS?

I dont know how to access BIOS my pc boots past it way before my monitor even turns on. Also I cant get inside my PC very easily as it is a Corsair One

[DefoNotJim]

1 minute ago, 5x5 said:

Check SMART chart - this is a symptom of imminent Hard Drive failure

where is smart chart? Is it a preinstalled service?

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, DefoNotJim said:

Im not sure how to do/check that?

I dont know how to access BIOS my pc boots past it way before my monitor even turns on. Also I cant get inside my PC very easily as it is a Corsair One

What model of drive? Look on the sticker on the drive.

 

Look at your motherboard manual to see what key to hold during bootup.

[5x5]

2 minutes ago, DefoNotJim said:

where is smart chart? Is it a preinstalled service?

 

Every drive has an internal SMART chart - use HD Tune or HD Sentinel to view it

[spartaman64]

shut down the computer and unplug and replug the drive

[DefoNotJim]

Okay, the drive has reappeared and is no longer saying that it "doesnt exist". However Im installing Borderlands 3 atm and it hasn't shown any data for "reading" only "writing" and im 7gb through. Should I use that a sign that somethings wrong?

[Electronics Wizardy]

39 minutes ago, DefoNotJim said:

Okay, the drive has reappeared and is no longer saying that it "doesnt exist". However Im installing Borderlands 3 atm and it hasn't shown any data for "reading" only "writing" and im 7gb through. Should I use that a sign that somethings wrong?

where do you see this.

 

What model of drive is this?

[kirashi]

1 hour ago, DefoNotJim said:

Okay, the drive has reappeared and is no longer saying that it "doesnt exist". However Im installing Borderlands 3 atm and it hasn't shown any data for "reading" only "writing" and im 7gb through. Should I use that a sign that somethings wrong?

Check your drive's SMART diagnostics using software such as CrystalDisk Info or HD Tune, and be sure you have a backup of data you cannot replicate.