Help me find my Harddrive please.

I am hoping some one can help me with a computer problem. I have two hard drives on my computer, one for the system stuff and one just for my images, the D drive. The computer is suddenly not seeing it. I have to go into the control panel Admim/Tools/Disc Management and use the scan function to bring the D Drive up. I can then get access to my images.

However if I restart my computer I have to find the D Drive as above again. Worse yet if I work on one of my images and go to save a new version I can not do it as no matter what way I try to save the system can not find the D Drive and I get error messages saying it can not save the file or the screen goes blank and the programme stops working.

I have set a new restore point to 3 days ago before all this started and that has not helped. I have run virus scans etc but I have a scan every day and my protections are up to date.

All my images are backed up on two other portable drives so I am good in that regard.

My system is Win7 home premium.

Go to BIOS during startup and check all settings for HD's.

OK Thanks for the help. I have no idea how to do that but I guess I can try to research that on the net.

Hi Kim,

Do you still need help with this?

Kev

Make sure the physical connection to the drive is sound. Shutdown the computer, disconnect and reconnect the D drive, restart.

Yes thanks. I have solved the problem and my HD is back to normal. I did more research on the net and went into the bios and got the HD reconnected. It did give me a few days of worry though.

Kim wrote:Yes thanks. I have solved the problem and my HD is back to normal. I did more research on the net and went into the bios and got the HD reconnected. It did give me a few days of worry though.

I hope you have it backed up at least once and preferably 3 or more times.

Roger

Kim wrote: It did give me a few days of worry though.

This statement is concerning to me.  If you are following a disciplined back-up regiment, hard drive failure should never be a worry.

Thank you Roger and EJ but in my original post I do say I have two backup copies of my images. At 72 years old I do find it a worry not having my computer working well and having to trawl through the internet to find out how to get it working again is a worry.

Where were you guys when I needed the help?

Glad you are sorted Kim.

Kev

Kim wrote: Where were you guys when I needed the help?

Traveling!  But I did notice that the very first answer was the correct one.  Just didn't get a chance to recheck the thread after you asked how to actually do that

Kim wrote:Where were you guys when I needed the help?

Traveling (back from Africa)!  But I also did not know the answer.

Well just to update on this topic. Turns out the reason my harddrive kept disappearing was because my mother board was on the way out. Long story short new computer arriving this weekend.

ATM I can not see any of my images and I am too apprehensive to plug in my external backup copies as I have experienced some corruption of files on my harddrive due to the motherboard problem according to my Teck person.

Hi Kim,

Sorry to hear you are still having problems, have to say I thought your previous fix was a bit strange in that drives shouldn't just get randomly disabled in the system BIOS.

Anyway, hopefully your tech will sort it all out for you, it should be possible to add your old drive to your new system and thus copy your files from the old drive to your new system drive(s), you can then leave the old drive in your system as a further backup storage point.

Good luck and hope it all gets resolved with the new system and you do not lose any further data.

Kev

Thanks Kev.
My new computer has 5 bays for harddrives and as the harddrives in my old system are less than 8 months old I will be using them if they pass testing by my computer man. It also has a solid state drive for the system so it should be good I hope.