Local disk disappeared after factory recovery running

Hi! I was trying to run Factory Recovery utility on my W510, and after getting a message that no more than one copy of recovery set can be created (which is true - i already created one set a while ago), one of my local disks "disappeared". I still can see my System disk (C, but can't see or open my local disk (D. Did anyone had such problem before? Thank you!
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Check under Disk Management. Does the other partition still exist?
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