My hard drive is missing

[Lil' Bitch 0]

I got my D drive which is a separate partition and I have a lot of movie files in there. I was using TMPGE convert some of the file so they'd be smaller as I was putting them in there. My HD was still 2 Gigs. While I was the middle of doing the conversion, my computer froze. So I restarted and it gave me "Hard Drive Failure" and I carried on so when I got back into my computer, I went to My Computer and my D drive wasn't there!

 

I did an online virus scan and it detected and scanned my D drive and I got nothing, but apparantly my computer doesn't detect it at all like as if somebody had physically opened up my computer and took it out.

 

Anyway to make it detectable again or am I stuck going to the computer repair guy?

[Perfxion 0]

if the drive was 2 gigs then buy a new one, why waste 150 to 200 dollars on a shitty drive when you can buy one for less with upto 200 gigs on it. If you had one with atleast 20 gigs on it and you had 2 gigs left, unplug the drive from the PC, reboot, then restart and reattach it, the PC should do everything else needed.

 

If all else fails, save all your files on to port. media(IE: Floppys, CDs, DVDs, Zip) and reformat the PC.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

I unplugged and replugged the drive after opening up the comp for a bit and its detected and work fines with all my files still there. Thanks a lot, MX!