On my computer, I have a Local disk C: drive (465gb) and an additional D: drive (7.27tb), running Windows 10.
I turned on my computer yesterday and file explorer immediately opened up with the notification "Cannot read or open G: drive". I do not have a G: drive, so this was confusing.
I restarted my PC and upon restart it attempted to repair the drive before booting up. "Repairing G: Drive". This was stuck on 2% for 12+ hours before I turned it off.
After restarting again, the G: drive was gone. However, it comes back randomly, every 2 or 3 restarts.
This 'ghost' G: Drive says it is size 3725gb and has RAW file system, 100% free space. I can see it on the Disk Management program, but I can't open it or anything.
The only performance issues when the mysterious G: drive appears is that certain programs are extremely slow (that normally are not), my PC has 32gb of RAM. I have all my programs on my C: drive and they are not demanding programs, and have had no issues in the past.
It is annoying because my PC gets stuck on the 2% when repairing this mysterious G: drive everytime that it occurs when I am turning on my PC.
What is causing this issues? I can't seem to figure it out and there are not any posts online about this issue.
Thank you