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Question

D Drive partition Disappeared

by Feb 24, 2014 4:17AM PST

Hello. I'm running an Asus notebook with windows 7 starter. The D drive partition just disappeared. Not in my computer. In Disk management the space shows but has no drive letter. I try and assign one and it says the disk management view is not up to date. Weird

It happened after a reboot. I was trying to access a broken external harddisk. I right clicked on the external HD in the device manager and decided to click on "better performance" option in the policies tab of the properties. There was a reboot and thats when the D drive disappeared.

Any ideas?

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Just a few months ago I spotted this one. It was a trojan.
by Forum moderator Feb 24, 2014 4:20AM PST
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by KenMcd4 Feb 24, 2014 4:34AM PST

Not sure how it could be a trojan. I am not running norton. Using comodo firewall and atm spybot2

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That's a clue.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 24, 2014 4:39AM PST

If you read the moderator posts here you won't find Spybot advised in what may be over 6 years.

I shared that I encountered such so it's your choice to go hunting or not. Grif's advice continues to be stellar and my Norton comment was out of jest because just a few days ago some one told me "It can't be that because I run Norton."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oShTJ90fC34 followed.
Bob

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Welcome back!
by Forum moderator Feb 24, 2014 4:44AM PST
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by KenMcd4 Feb 24, 2014 4:57AM PST

Yes that one seemed to go away after I kept deleting files I suspected.
Currently searching the net for solutions and waiting for my brother to call me back before I start tinkering. Thought I would get some ideas from here, but no luck yet.

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Fix so far
by Feb 26, 2014 5:29AM PST

All the scanners didn't do anything. There is definitly something buzzing about my PC so will have to research more, but I got access to my files. Used Testdisk to access copy my files then used it to restore the partition and I could access the files normally again.

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Good find.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 26, 2014 5:44AM PST

Sounds like you should backup before it goes south entirely.

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also
by Feb 26, 2014 8:32AM PST

I'd restored the D drive by adding the partition structure in test disk. It did however surface a 15GB partiton which is Windows 7's master reboot/recovery partition. I made it hidden again, but does anyone think that it will boot if I need to use it. i.e. do I need to make it active or anything else in addition to hidden?

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(NT) When it works, stop fixing.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 26, 2014 8:50AM PST
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