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When I was actively working, I had 3 computers in my office, with all work automatically copied to all 3. Worked like a champ. When 1 computer glitched, I just moved to another and kept working. Everythin was fine until some hoodlums broke into my office and stole all 3 computers. Fortunately I had just made a complete backup of all 3 on a giant external drive, so life went on once I bought new systemssystems.The worst suffering was to my bank account.
modified 9-Mar-23 12:35pm.
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That's OK ... I replaced a breaker (several times) because I missed the ground fault breaker. Or the keyboard came unplugged. Or the cat jiggled the HDMI cable and the monitor went dead ...
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I am having almost same situation. My system is a little over a year old. Drive C is my NVE SSD drive. Drive D is 2TB HDD sata drive. Your symptoms sound very much like mine and I did the same preventative steps. Even though D is currently working, I ordered a replacement for it (not expensive). I'll swap it out and use the old drive as second backup (I had sata USB connector to allow it become an external drive). My experience is that once a drive starts acting up do something quick.
Hopefully it's just the drive and not some controller issue. BTW I use HDDScan to give me drive temperature readings (not sure how accurate but that drive sometimes runs hot 40+C)
Anyway, good luck.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Thanks! But it is a Samsung drive and I ran Samsung Magician software to check it out. It found nothing wrong, but still I don't trust it! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Mine is Seagate. I have had good luck with this brand, but I still don't trust this drive either.
Just got my replacement 5 mins ago.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Get something that can read the smart data like CrystalDiskInfo and check the health of the SSD. SSDs have a limited number of write cycles and are often rated in TBW - Terabytes Written.
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Good point! It was 3 years old and had been used extensively on a daily basis. It may be suffering from old age! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cp-Coder wrote: As a last resort I restored the system drive to a Macrium image taken just yesterday, with little hope that that will recover access to the D drive. But it worked! Now my D drive is visible again! 
So, something changed on the system drive that lead the OS to think there was no D: drive, and restoring the backup of the system drive brought that back...?
Maybe the dying drive is NOT your D: drive at all...
I can't help but wonder whether--while your system was in that state--the BIOS was seeing your secondary drive at all. Probably can't determine that now...
Either way...yeah, back up religiously. Someone mentioned a RAID configuration...I never miss an opportunity to point out that RAID isn't a backup solution. I've had a RAID controller give up - no fun (all drives individually were fine). Given the extra hassle of setting up RAIDs - while I liked the idea (at first) I stopped playing with the technology, have gone single-drive and never looked back.
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Since I've founded JUUN Software back in 2018 I've had my mail with my domain name provider.
Had it in Outlook using IMAP.
All works well, but I can't sync contacts or my calendar to my phone, which is annoying to say the least.
Especially since I had to add a customer's account to my Outlook which is on Exchange and Outlook is now somehow rerouting all my appointments through that account.
So I got Microsoft 365 Business last year and I'm finally getting to switching to Exchange.
So I changed my DNS to look for Exchange, removed my IMAP account from Outlook and added Exchange.
All works well, but... All my mails have gone.
Turns out I have to move those manually.
So I'm now setting up IMAP again, syncing all the mails I just removed back to Outlook, moving them to another account, setting up Exchange again en moving them back to Exchange.
I remember having these same problems back in 2014 when I switched my edgy teenager mail account to a more mature account.
You'd think this could be easier in 2023 
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If you want to play with the big boys, you have to use the big boy's tools.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: you have to use the big boy's tools.
Option #1) or the lack of them
Option #2) You said big boys' tools, but it doesn't mean, that they have to work right or make any kind of logic.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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There are some tools (big boy or not) I'll never have in my company.
SAP and Oracle come to mind 
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You are my kind of guy.
ed
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Sander Rossel wrote: I'll never have in my company
More relevant - Crystal Reports!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Too late for that 
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If you have a Samsung, Samsung Smart Switch allows you to sync your Outlook contacts. (That or Side sync, but I think it was Smart Switch.) I believe it also updates your calendar, but I'm not sure.
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Got it all working now with Exchange
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This may be considered heresy here at CP but...
It seems like many (most? all?) developers have an obsession with keeping (forever?) every email that has ever passed through their inbox. As far as I'm concerned, 93.4% of emails I send or receive have a shelf-life of about a week... the remaining 6.6% can be evenly divided into those with a shelf-life less than a week and those with a shelf-life greater than a week. It's an extremely rare day that I need to search my archives for an old email.
I find it humorous that something we find so vitally important will become absolutely worthless the moment we retire (or die).
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Yes, that is heresy.
I've had to find an old email on multiple occasions, if only to tell a customer "yes, I did remind you/mention it/whatever, see email at [date from months ago]."
It costs me nothing to keep my mails from years ago, yet if I ever get into a dispute with a customer and I don't have relevant proof of my right (which could just as well be an email) it could cost me a lot of money.
In fact, I nearly got into such a dispute.
A customer wouldn't pay because I didn't finish their software.
Luckily, I could show them a nice long email history with all the times I reminded or asked my customer about something and never did I get an answer.
Ultimately, they paid almost everything.
Imagine how a few emails saved me about 15K.
In other occasions I was just happy to find an old email because it explained something I forgot about.
fgs1963 wrote: I find it humorous that something we find so vitally important will become absolutely worthless the moment we retire (or die).
That's true for many things.
In fact, my parents already joke about all the "junk" they collect, like books, saying they'll keep it so I can throw it out once they're gone (which will hopefully be no sooner than about 30 years or so).
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I archive the emails I am sure that I will need. The rest go about once a quarter. If I haven't needed them by then, I never will. this has not caused me any problem.
ed
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How would you know which to keep?
I've more than once needed emails older than a few months.
I do keep them neatly organized, but as I said, it costs me nothing to keep them so why even bother deleting them?
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The bigger the haystack, the harder it is to find the needle.
If it's an email I replied to, then I archive it. If it is a reply to one of my emails, I keep it.
If I did keep them all, I would add folders by topic and store them in the folder they belong to.
Oh, and I don't know how many emails you get, But I get on average 150 emails a day, most of them being junk.
Let me know how it turns out.
The best right back to you.
Ed
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Well, I don't keep everything.
Automated mails about build status updates or spam, I throw away.
But any remark or request from a client, no matter how small, I keep.
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I agree that 99.9% of emails are going to be worthless after a month. But storage is cheap, my time is not. Keeping everything and being able to search it on need requires much less time than trying to manually sort out which messages are of long standing value and which can be deleted with no loss.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Sander Rossel wrote: You'd think this could be easier in 2023
This is another one of those "path of least resistance" type of things. If it's hard to migrate, people just won't bother and keep using your service.
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