I've installed Win 10 and now cannot access my D: drive

[Rafa Bor]

Hello guys

I just formatted my C: drive in order to install Windows 10 (I was using Windows 7).

Now I cannot access my D: drive. Look at the message that shows when I click on its icon:

D:\ is not accessible

The volume does not contain a recognized file system.
Please make sure that all required file system drivers are loaded and that the volume is not corrupted.*

I tried to create a pendrive with my Rescue Disk ISO, mas it seems the image is broken.

Can somebody help me? :-(

[Gary Marks]

I gather that your D: drive was just a data drive, perhaps even designated a "System Favorite Volume"? Either way, non-system drives like that don't require your rescue disk to be mounted. Rescue disks are ONLY for mounting/repairing/booting the system drive with which they are paired. If you can install Windows 10 on your C: drive without accessing any files from your D: drive, you'll be fine, but you won't be able to mount the D: drive until you install VeraCrypt on your new system. If you need files before then, you can download the portable version of VeraCrypt and run it on any bootable WinPE thumbdrive. Don't try to mount your D: drive as a system drive.

[Rafa Bor]

Thanks for your quick reply, Gary!

D: is my backup partition. I had installed VeraCrypt on Windows 10, mas couldn't mount D:

But I just managed to do this by following this suggestion:

Try to mount system volume with option
Select system volume -> mount ->mount option -> check "mount partition using system encryption..."

Source: https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/technical/thread/ae0f9515/#128a/26e0

[Gary Marks]

So D: was a system drive after all. I completely misread your situation. My bad!

[Rafa Bor]

No problem! Thanks for your concern!