No, really, where the fuck did it go and what the fuck do I do to get it back. I was drawing in SAI and it suddenly gave me a popup saying that the D Drive finished deleting. I did not prompt this, I did not touch anything. And yet here we are a 1TB drive missing, 3 hours of customer service online in the hole, and nowhere closer to figuring out wtf happened or how to get the shit back. I am computer illiterate. I just lost all my music, my games, my art files. Everything. I did a full system restore upon prompting from the customer service people and do not know what is going on still. I need help in figuring out what's going on. Please. Anyone.
So I stayed up last night till I passed out from exhaustion because I was too stressed out. Woke up today to try sorting through the Dell site to find the chat option for help from before and couldn't find it. Eventually I went and checked my computer thing and... there was the D Drive. with all the files on it. Device manager says it's there and it's healthy and fine, the Intel Rapid Storage thing says it's plugged in there and fine, it is entirely there and normal and I don't know what happened. Because of the system restore, I had updates to do last night. ... and here we are. full functional, normal. You can bet your ass I snagged my comic work from the maw in case it closes again for whatever reason. Current problem tho: what the dink happened to make it say it was unplugged will it happen again and how can I prevent that if everything is saying "nah, it's fine, don't worry"?? why do I now suddenly have an extra thing registering, and it says I can't access it?? (I put pictures below) Since I was talking with you last night about it I'mma ping @Mendacity for when you get a chance because I am making confused duck noises at wt f happened. Eta: some digging says the new drive is a Windows 10 specific problem and they're working on a patch or something? but it shouldn't cause any problems that I can tell so far. so. there's that at least. more ETA: restarted after putting my cintiq driver back on to make it active to do the drawing test. the extra drive is gone now, D drive is still there and everything seems totally fine. I am thankful but confused.
Me too. I just wish I knew what the heck happened so my anxiety can stop screaming IT'S GONNA BRICK, IT'S GONNA BRICK at me and I can trust my behemoth again.
hm. if it's Win10 specific i wonder if it's a temporary partition for an update or something like that? and the file-showing system just kinda glitched out while it was updating and went "oh hey this thing isn't here anymore!" but then realized "oh wait it's here nm". computers are so effing dumb sometimes. i'm so sorry this happened to you, that would have sent me into one hell of a panic spiral. do you have backup systems in place? Dropbox, OneDrive, even Google Drive? I know you're probably working with fairly large files if you're doing art, but ... even if you lose one file to corruption you'd have the rest backed up, at least for work stuff :/ (also apologies if this is a v dumb suggestion for whatever reason...) edit: fwiw my Win10 desktop has been stuck in an update loop for a few days now, can't complete its update for some reason. i haven't had time to properly debug it with school starting up again, but rest assured Win10 is fucking with a lot of people right now. don't feel too alone :)
