running windows me(no comments please!), this morning when i woke up i discovered my local D:\ is missing, gone! this is important to recover, i have alot of stuff saved to it. my tower keeps beeping at me, twice sparratically(?), throughout the day. can anyone help?
2006-09-27 08:08:59 · 8 answers · asked by maryjane4006 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
okay so i HAVE looked in the usual places, like between c + e, obviously IT'S NOT THERE! and as i mentioned it's windowsME. i want to FIX THIS COMP.!
2006-09-27 08:36:56 · update #1
Look between the letters C and E.. You may find it then..
:)
2006-09-27 08:10:06 · answer #1 · answered by Clints_wench 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I would first try rebooting the computer. Watch for the hard drive list at the initial BIOS page if your D drive is actually a separate physical drive. If it's a partition on a large local drive, that's another issue in itself. Let's just go with that it's a separate drive. If it showed up in the BIOS screen and it's still missing in Windows, then the next step would be to check the IDE/SATA cables connected between your drive and the motherboard. Oftentimes, reseating these cables is all you need to do to resolve this issue. If you're not comfortable with opening your computer case, get a professional to help you or take it into a shop. Here's a page on reseating hard disk drive cables:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-50794
Now, if you go through that and the D drive still isn't showing up, chances are you're experiencing a drive failure. You might be able to get a professional to extract data from it for you but know that a professional data recovery service is usually very expensive.
If your hard drive is external and connected to USB or FireWire, try reseating those cables. Power the unit off and back on. Then reboot your computer.
Good luck.
2006-09-27 08:35:07 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ya Sure i can . but before that u have to tell which version are u using of windows. if XP : Do following
first chk wthr ur drive is formatted or just hidden to chk that , right clik my computer go to manage and than to disk manegment {ussually in last place here} here u can C all partitions of u r disk if D is there right click striped portion in blue D: clik change drive letter path , here u can add same name u had or change it than ok , close window re logon and chk back in my computer . Hope it works if not u can mail me i'll give u complte way to resolve it but it would do. bye have a gr8 day .
2006-09-27 08:19:59 · answer #3 · answered by naxt86 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reboot the computer, check to see if all the cables are plugged in (esp if your D:/ drive is removable, it could be a loose USB cable), and then go through the "My Computer" icon to see if it appears anywhere. Good luck.
2006-09-27 08:11:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hard drive failure or a malfunction on the mother board. It's time for a new computer. You'll need one anyway to hook the D: drive into to see if it was a hard drive failure or not.
The beeping is telling you it is a hardware failure of some kind.
2006-09-27 08:17:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
D:\ is usually a cd drive.... but if that is your hard drive.... I would take it out and put it into another computer and see if you can save the files on dvds or something..... if you don't know how to do that.... you probably should take it in. oh ya... and upgrade to xp or something lol
2006-09-27 08:11:18 · answer #6 · answered by danielrosborne 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i might propose restarting your laptop the final way and see if that fixes the undertaking. of course the Dpersistent did no longer disappear that is purely that the laptop does not comprehend it and restarting that is going to enable it boot-up each and all of the drives.
2016-10-18 02:09:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to find and put d:\
2006-09-27 08:10:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋