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Question

Lost hard and external drives

Feb 15, 2016 4:55PM PST

When upgrading to Windows 10, I lost an internal drive and an external drive and a cd-rom how can I get these back?

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Clarification Request
Rare but can happen.
Feb 15, 2016 5:38PM PST

If there are drives on RAID controllers we hit the maker's site for RAID drivers. For the CD-ROM those vanish if one has some CD AS A FLOPPY software installed. Uninstall that software and see if it comes back.

Your post is very light on machine details.

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lost hard drive & cd-rom
Feb 18, 2016 2:58PM PST

I'll give it a try. Thanks