Windows Update on January 14, 2025 'disappeared' my D: drive and E: drive and probably the files on them. Normal fixes don't work.

[Windows 10]

After the Windows update of January 14, 2025 my D: drive has disappeared. Also my CD Rom disk drive has disappeared. Only the C: Drive is left. My normal use of the D: drive is a desktop location of Google My Drive. I save and store files on the local desktop and then let them sync to Google Drive. I have tried most of the tricks available on the internet, including 'power off-power on", and rescan and refresh disks. Upon opening Disk Management, I can see the partitions for the missing drives but it also shows them to have 100% free space. I take that to mean that all of the files we

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