D: Drive disapeared, HELP!!!

[Guest]

Does anyone have any suggestions on my case?
I am using XP.
There are C, D, E Drives for my PC, sometimes, D drive disappeared, after a
periods, it appears again. Does anyone have any suggestions on my case?
and how to solve this problem?
Thank you in advance
Eric

 

[Pegasus]

Does anyone have any suggestions on my case?
I am using XP.
There are C, D, E Drives for my PC, sometimes, D drive disappeared, after
a
periods, it appears again. Does anyone have any suggestions on my case?
and how to solve this problem?
Thank you in advance
Eric

You're not telling us what drive D: is. If it is a USB
flash disk then the simple answer is: plug it in!

Click Start / Run / diskmgmt.msc {OK} to see what
disks and drives exist on your machine, both with
drive D: visible and invisible.

 

[Guest]

D: Drive is a harddrive
Thank you
Eric

You're not telling us what drive D: is. If it is a USB
flash disk then the simple answer is: plug it in!

Click Start / Run / diskmgmt.msc {OK} to see what
disks and drives exist on your machine, both with
drive D: visible and invisible.

 

[Pegasus]

Great. Now what about diskmgmt.msc?

D: Drive is a harddrive
Thank you
Eric

 

[M.I.5¾]

D: Drive is a harddrive
Thank you
Eric

In that case you may have a loose connection, either on the power connector
or on the interface connector.

 

[Guest]

I did nothing, now the D drive appears again.
This situation occurred more than 2 times for a long period of time.
Last occurrence was more than 3 months ago. If there is a connection
problem, it should occur very often within a short period of time.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank everyone for suggestions
Eric

 

[nl]

I did nothing, now the D drive appears again.
This situation occurred more than 2 times for a long period of time.
Last occurrence was more than 3 months ago. If there is a connection
problem, it should occur very often within a short period of time.

That aint necessarily so.

A dodgy connection can be intermittent and not occur more than every
few months. It can be caused by a connection that has worked itself
loose due to vibration, or the inexplicable failure of a wire in the
ribbon cable (inexplicable because there is no reason for such a thing
to happen but it does).

Check the D cables are firmly plugged in at both ends, and if they
are, replace the power and data cables to the D: drive, and see if
that fixes the problem. It's a fiddly job but cables are cheap and
it's the most obvious solution.

You might want to do it sooner rather than later as the problem may
vanish only to re-occur in the middle of a disk write operation and
then you'll be seriously knackered.

 

[Guest]

Thank everyone for suggestions
Eric

That aint necessarily so.

A dodgy connection can be intermittent and not occur more than every
few months. It can be caused by a connection that has worked itself
loose due to vibration, or the inexplicable failure of a wire in the
ribbon cable (inexplicable because there is no reason for such a thing
to happen but it does).

Check the D cables are firmly plugged in at both ends, and if they
are, replace the power and data cables to the D: drive, and see if
that fixes the problem. It's a fiddly job but cables are cheap and
it's the most obvious solution.

You might want to do it sooner rather than later as the problem may
vanish only to re-occur in the middle of a disk write operation and
then you'll be seriously knackered.