📎 AI Summary:
The original poster, Gubby24, reports that their secondary hard drive (E:) disappeared from Windows after a restart, although it was still detected in Device Manager and shows no signs of physical failure. They mention that the drive is uninitialized, and they seek advice on recovering their data and partitions before attempting any potentially destructive solutions. Subsequent posts show they are still seeking tips or insights from the community regarding their situation.

Gubby24

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Thread Author #1
Hello Guys,

Weird thing happened today.
My Hard Drive .. partitions disappeared in Windows.

I have a SSD that holds C: (Windows) and D: (some frequently used stuff)
I have a HDD that held E: I am not sure if there was also an F: ? I don't think so.

Anyway, I was downloading something directly to E: and I noticed the download had stopped.
I tried to resume it, it wouldn't work.
I thought "A restart is in order"

Unfortunately after the restart I saw a message from Dropbox saying "You moved your dropbox location, it used to be E:\Dropbox"

When I opened my Computer, my E: is nowhere to be found :(
When I open Device Manager, my Hard is still there.
I paid attention to the sounds my computer makes, there doesn't seem to be any signs of troubles in the Hard Drive. No Click Click / seeking sounds.

When I go to Administrative Tools / Storage, it says my Hard Drive is not Initialized.

I've read some things here: 6 Ways to Fix Disk Unknown Not Initialized in Windows 10/8/7 - EaseUS but I have tried their soft before to recover data and it does not do what they advertise. So I don't really trust them.

Can you guys tell me if there is a way to attempt to recover my Partitions / My Data before I do anything that will forever make them unrecoverable ?

I would at least like to see the content..
I don't keep pictures or personal videos on hard drive .. so all the content should be re-acquirable.. just I don't even remember what I had on it.


Thank you in advance for your assistance on this.
I use Windows 7
 

Gubby24

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Thread Author #2
Hey Guys,

If anyone has any tips, or has encountered a similar situation, I would really appreciate it your input.

Even if it's not what I want to hear :)