A rainy night computer question

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-28 11:57:03 | Updated at 2024-09-30 13:27:26 2 days ago

A rainy night computer question
Me | 9/27/2024 | Paul R.

Posted on 09/28/2024 3:14:39 AM PDT by Paul R.

Here's a weird one! I have a Lenovo N22 laptop that I use for occasional web browsing, Zoom video chats, etc. No crucial data is kept on this machine. However, I do keep a 128 GB Micro-SD card in the Micro-SD port as a data drive and to house smaller programs such as IrfanView, as the boot drive "C" is only 56 GB. This SD card used to come up as Drive D:\ upon boot up. However, in "This PC" now it comes up as "E", and for "D" there is a little drive symbol, then " ? D:\ ". The shortcuts to programs on the Micro-SD card no longer work, and "?D:\" has no properties, no data, etc., something like I see sometimes on an old USB hub when a thumb drive malfunctions and gets pulled without proper ejection.

Everything is still on the Micro-SD card, the computer just doesn't know to look there to, say, fire up IrfanView. If I manually hunt down an exe file, on "E", the program runs fine.

I'm not sure how far back this happened, but, IIRC it was after an update.

I'm also pretty sure I cannot simply rename the Micro-SD "drive" to "D", but, new shortcuts to the exe files on it should work. Right?

I'd love to install a SSD as a 2nd drive, as I have a couple spares, but, I'm not at all sure the N22 has a spot for them.(?)

TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: drive; lenovo; n22; update

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Thank you very much and God bless you.

This machine is too inadequate* to be worth a lot of effort or expense, but, it IS still useful for modest tasks like recording music or low demand web browsing, word processing, etc. :-)

*Simply regularly closing out memory leaks (browser windows that don't fully close) helps a lot!

1 posted on 09/28/2024 3:14:39 AM PDT by Paul R.

To: Paul R.

*Helps with how much the processor gets bogged down, I mean...

2 posted on 09/28/2024 3:15:40 AM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)

To: Paul R.

And, better worded:

“I’d love to install a SSD as a 2nd drive, as I have a couple spares, but, I’m not at all sure the N22 has a spot for one of them.(?)”

3 posted on 09/28/2024 3:17:13 AM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)

To: Paul R.

What OS are you running?

D drive is usually the backup partition on MS Windows.....

4 posted on 09/28/2024 3:27:54 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)

To: jeffc

That machine has Win 10 Pro on it.

On most of my machines, “D” is a DVD drive or a 2nd SSD or HD.
Recovery partions are on one drive or another but not separately lettered. (On the machine I’m on now, the recovery partition is on “G”, which physical SSD was the original boot drive, but is now a backup & data drive. There actually is still an old copy of the OS, also Win 10 Pro, on “G”.

The N22 does not have an internal DVD drive. The recovery partition is on the boot SSD, but, again, has no separate letter.

5 posted on 09/28/2024 3:58:11 AM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)

To: Paul R.

I'd love to install a SSD as a 2nd drive, as I have a couple spares, but, I'm not at all sure the N22 has a spot for them.(?)

Just get even a cheap ($2.93) USB adapter for the SSD, while Run diskmgmt.msc to see what it says, and from whence you can change the drive#.

Hope this helps. http://peacebyjesus.net

6 posted on 09/28/2024 4:41:01 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)

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