Windows disk management help Created 13 years ago2010-10-17 02:57:33 UTC by DiscoStu

Help!

I turned on my computer today only to find my second HDD was missing from My Computer. I fired up device manager, only to see a (!) icon next to Logical disk controller. It says the driver is missing or corrupted.

Nothing has changed in my computer yesterday. I didn't install anything at all, and I haven't touched my computer's innards in at least a year. How can this happen at random?

Attempting to enter Disk Management only shows the message "Unable to connect to logical disk manager service" and I can't do anything from there either.

Has anyone ever encountered such an error in the past? I'm not sure what to do. Does anybody have a clue on what's going on?

Any insight will be appreciated.

On the off chance that it might help, you could try shutting down, unplugging the hard drive, starting up, shutting back down, and plugging the drive back in.

Who knows, maybe it'll reinstall the driver or something.

Disk management not working is probably due to the service either not running or is at fault, restart or start it.

Is SMART enabled in your BIOS and does it give any message during booting? Can you see all drives in POST?

@Soup: Just unplugging the hard drive didn't help. I'll report back when I plug it back in and restart. At least I'm almost certain it's not the drive.

@Crollo: From reading the first 10 pages of Google I figured I had to check on the service. The service doesn't start because the driver is corrupted or missing. Or rather, it starts and automatically stops with a message along the lines of "got nothing to do". So yeah that's the first thing I tried. I have to find a way to restore the driver, but I have to find the mobo drivers first. I'll do that as soon as I'm done with the most urgent homework.

@commieman: Will check on the next boot. I don't see why should that have changed on its own, though. I'm the only user of this computer and nobody has changed it.

You sure your HDD hasn't carked it?

Why would it?

Corrupted sectors? Physical damage? Who knows.

I'm sure the drive itself is fine. The issue is still there even with the drive unplugged (as in, right now)

That's what I thought, but I'm really afraid that it might cause more harm than good. As in, delaying even more my already late homework which I desperately need to do before tomorrow. Or worse, complicating things enough that I can't do next tuesday's homework either.

I don't HAVE any other OS like Linux. I'll look into actually doing anything in two weeks when I'm done with late homework and exams and shit.

It's not going to change anything but that which is related to the drivers of that second HDD. You don't need to worry about the rest of your computer being harmed by it, it's not rocket science.

Well, it's actually computer science I guess, but at a very low level.

Point being, stop worrying and reinstall the driver.