{"id":15198,"date":"2021-12-18T16:13:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T16:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=15198"},"modified":"2021-12-18T16:13:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T16:13:58","slug":"disappearing-and-reappearing-d-drive","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-7\/disappearing-and-reappearing-d-drive\/15786.html","title":{"rendered":"Disappearing And Reappearing D: Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, got a new laptop with a new operating system and new problems.<\/p>\n<p>This might have been going on since I got it, but I have no clue as I only noticed it two days ago. Also, I can&#8217;t say how long it takes before it happens.<\/p>\n<p>The laptop will be on for awhile, and at some point, the D: drive disappears from the My Computer window &#8211; in fact, the entire &#8220;devices with removable storage&#8221; part disappears, possibly since D: is the only thing in that category.<\/p>\n<p>When I restart, D: is back.<\/p>\n<p>I tried going into the folder options and unchecking the &#8220;Hide empty drives in the Computer folder&#8221;, but it still disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t restore to before this happened, as it apparently has a thing against restore points as well.<\/p>\n<p>I read that if I put a disk in the drive, D: should reappear, but it didn&#8217;t. I tried more than one disk, both CD and DVD, and it didn&#8217;t make a difference. After the restart, D: works fine again.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone have any hints, or should I just suck it up and deal? I&#8217;ll admit I freaked out the first time, but now that I know it comes back it&#8217;s annoying but not quite as bit a deal&#8230;I hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":7},"question-category":[42],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-15198","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-7"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/15198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=15198"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=15198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}