Hello,
for some reason today mi D disk simply disappeared (disk 0). As you can see in the screenshots I can't change the name, it's a healthy partition, and I also tried refreshing and everything, still nothing. It shows as a normal disk in "disk management" but not in "This PC" (the last screenshot). What's the problem here? Thanks.
It seems it's lost its drive letter- have you tried assigning one? You appear to be selecting an EFI partition in the screenshot. Those options are greyed out if I try that with my EFI partition.
The other oddity is you appear to have 2 EFI partitions.
Are you sure your PC boots if Disk 0 is not present? (I.e. are all partitions for Win 10 actually one 1 disk?)
You also seem to have little free space on C: - certainly not enough for any next Windows upgrade (25Gb min probably needed).
I'm only able to change the Windows(C:) drive letter, all the rest are greyed out.
Yes, there are 2 EFI partitions. Is that a problem?The other oddity is you appear to have 2 EFI partitions.
I don't know. What do you recommend me to do?Are you sure your PC boots if Disk 0 is not present? (I.e. are all partitions for Win 10 actually one 1 disk?)
Some additional information: a few months ago I installed xubuntu on my laptop, and I had to do some changes to the partitions, after using said OS for a few weeks I tried to zip a file in my desktop using the terminal, my laptop suddenly got frozen and reversed back to windows (it completely erased xubuntu, I suppose a critical error or something happened). After that I didn't make any change whatsoever, I've been just using Windows10. I actually never understood what happened.
If you notice, your nominal D: partition does not have a file system shown.
Is there anything important on it - do you have a backup for example a recent disk image?
(Routine disk imaging is recommended here endlessly - e.g. Macrium Reflect (free) ).
Please post a screenshot of your partitions using a 3rd party partition manager. This should show 1 other small partition too.
E.g. Minitool Partition Wizard.
Wrt your Linux experience this is interesting and similar:
How do I find out which EFI system partition is in use by Windows 10? - Super User
Yep, there you can see it's EXT4 not NTFS.
You can now also see all 4 partitions of your Win 10.
You can now deal with that partition appropriately.
You should not have 2 EFI partitions.. the spare one can be deleted - the one on Disk 0.
Then you need to consider the lack of free space on C: - the disk isn't so large. There's a tutorial on recovering space on C:
Why do you have a Linux partition on drive 1?
If you want to run Linux don't delete the EFI partition or it won't boot.
As you have a Windows boot loader on disk 1, I suggest you disconnect drive 1 from the MB (SATA or power cable) and try to boot Windows from disk 2. If it doesn't boot, it can be that the boot loader of disk 2 is on EFI partition of disk 1
Select unallocated space and select create partition
If you wish to make use of the entire disk, delete the EXT4 partition and make use of the entire disk.
You have a decent partition manager, so you can do that readily.
And as I said, do make sure you can in fact boot entirely from your Windows system drive just to be safe.
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