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Question

D: drive is missing after clean install of windows 10

Mar 18, 2016 10:14AM PDT

So, one day i was just thinking of doing a clean install of Windows from a bootable USB drive and after i got everything set up, clean installation done and ready to go i noticed that..
Windows only created one drive, and that's my lonely C: drive with the space of my old C: drive and D: drive together. So practically, it blended those two drives together and i have no idea what to do to fix the situation, since im pretty sure i did everything correct on the clean installation but this is the result. Is there any ways to fix this situation WITHOUT going back to a restore point or without another clean installation of Windows from a bootable usb drive? I have tried installing the Windows again from the settings of the Windows but it did not work and the problem still persists. Also, while i was doing the new install of the Windows, it threw me an error of the drive being GBT (or something along the lines) so i had to run cmd in the installer and clean disk 0 to make it work. and By doing that, it didnt show those 7-8 drives i had on the list in the installer but it actually deleted all of those 8 and left 1 standing so i clicked ''new'' and it made only one more that was called ''system memory'' or something along those lines. And if there's any info you need more of what i was messing around, ask me freely and i'll answer as good as i can.
And if there is no other choice than do the clean install again from the usb, then could you advice what couldve i done wrong and what to pay attention to fix this? My Computer runs nice and smooth without it so far aswell but its deleting my files on its own and thats a problem.

Thanks in advance!

My Computer is an Asus notebook x551ca.

(sorry for my bad english)

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Clarification Request
While I see why it made one big drive C
Mar 18, 2016 10:29AM PDT

Why is this an issue? If you need to put stuff together and segregate content, folders work well for this.

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Well...
Mar 18, 2016 10:52AM PDT

I was suspecting the problem that i have which is that the Windows is deleting files on its own is because of the missing D: drive since thats the only change i saw after doing the clean install. I wasnt in no means sure of this but thats what i suspected. Is there any other reasons why it might be deleting my folders and files on its own then? Could there be something wrong i did in the clean installation of Windows from the usb?

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Next time, share the problem up front.
Mar 18, 2016 11:37AM PDT

Now you are claiming Windows 10 is losing your files. That is another problem and I've yet to find this happen because I have no D drive.

Are you using that email login system? I find that it can be confusing.

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Yeah, my bad..
Mar 18, 2016 11:43AM PDT

Im really new to all these forum things and i appreciate the tip.
And yes i do use the email login thing, but yesterday after installing all the necessary programs for me to get going again after the clean install, and looking it up today it had deleted so many files on its on while it was off. I tried to redownload them once, and had to leave the house so closed it again and it deleted them again while my pc was off.

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No, I ddn't do a TL;DR
Mar 18, 2016 12:43PM PDT

But it's hard to pick out the issues so I picked out three to start.