Unmounted volume--D Partition of my single laptop hard drive

[Papa Joe]

Hi
Via EMail, a friend of mine sent the following note:

"When I was defragging the laptop yesterday it only showed a "C"
drive. There is no longer a "D" drive. The defrag message was
"Unmounted Volume" (for the "D" drive). What does this mean? What
happened to my "D" drive"

I did some research about this and found a lot on mounting a drive,
but none on what could have disnounted--if that is still proper
english--the thing.

This is a relatively small data storage partition of the single hard
drive but he says it contains My Documents...naturally.

He did not do the reading on how to mount a drive, so, whatever was
done he was not in the decision making process.

We would appreciate any and all info.

Thanks
joe

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Have him boot to setup CD, and press 'r' for Recovery Console prompt. Type:

CHKDSK D: /R