• Entire hard drive is gone
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Okay, I need help. Quickly. I have a Windows 8 PC, and it's fairly new- like, months old. It has two drives, C: (which has 115 GB free) and D: (which has 1,67TB free). As you can guess, D: is where all of our stuff goes. Well, something happened. My brother plays Hearthstone, and the game asked him to restart the PC after it couldn't connect to Battle.net. He did that, and everything in that D: drive is gone. [I]Including the D: drive.[/I] It's like it never exists. Our desktop is empty, we can't find it in My Computer or Disk Management, nothing. And he didn't do a thing! What happened? Please, help!
Open up the case and check if the cable is connected. Turn off the computer before you do this. If it is connected then check if the disk is spinning and if it makes any noise.
I think that worked. I opened up the case and checked to see if the cable was connected. I couldn't really see it, but I pressed it and when I turned it on, everything was back to normal! Although I also did put the "Virtual Disk Service" on automatically start, since it had stopped the previous night and I hadn't noticed. Could that be it?
I don't know much about the VDS but you could tell if it was the VDS by checking if the HDD showed up in the BIOS, If you can see it in the BIOS but not in the OS maybe it was the VDS service. From what I understand of VDS it shouldn't stop your HDD from appearing after a reboot.
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