Windows vista hard drive partition disappeared

I have an IBM notebook which came with vista home basic pre-installed. After running for almost six months. My windows got some problems due to which I had to run a recovery disk. After running a recovery disk, although OS has been restored to original, my D: is missing. It's showing the only c: to me now. I have checked in BIOS also.

I am not sure whether it has merged the two drives if so. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse.

Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. Shinmila H. Hey topxxlbear, Does the drive in disk management have a drive letter? See if this helps in restoring the drive in Explorer. How satisfied are you with this reply?

Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to Shinmila H's post on March 6, Sorry neither of those has worked. The commands did not quite open as you suggested as I am using Windows 7 so, for example, "run as administrator" was not needed nor did it appear as an option, however the "do you want to make changes In Disk Management, the sector appears a GB partition on disk 0 but right clicking just brings up "help" as an option as it does with a couple of other partitions.

On the partition named C the full menu appears on right click. In diskpart, the main C disc and 12Gb partition are listed and given volume numbers but the other two do not appear. Arya S Asok. In reply to topxxlbear's post on March 6, Hi Topxxlbear, - Do you have multiple hard drives on the computer or is it a single hard drive? Solution 1. Accepted Solutions.

Dell Forum member since Community Accepted Solution. Replies 9. TheRealFireblad 5 Iridium. Whichever one it's set to, try the other?

RobinBredin 5 Rhenium. If there was an Integrated Peripherals option, I would try that! Try removing the hard drive and reseating it.

Glad to be up and running again! Post Reply. Top Contributor. Dell Support Resources. Latest Solutions. In such case, you can try to update device driver for the hard disk to fix this issue.

Here are detailed steps:. Click disk drivers and locate the external hard disk that is now showing up in Disk Management. Or you can turn to troubleshoot to solve hard disk partition disappearing in Windows 7, 8, 10, If you are in such a condition, you can enter Disk Management to view the status of the partition at first.

If the hard disk partition even not showing up in Disk Management, you can enter Device Manager to update device driver or check the connection between the external hard disk and computer.