G+_Louis Rigo Jr Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 Hey everyone, need a little tech help... I just moved from one house to another and am having an issue after setting up my computer. At the old house, I powered down my computer completely, then turned off my UPS and disconnected several external HDs. At the new house, I reversed the process, set everything up, powered up the UPS, externals and finally the PC. When Windows came up, it said I needed to format one of my drives before I could use it.... uh-oh.... I had about 1.5TB of data on this 2TB drive, I know the data's still in there, I'm guessing something got hosed in the index. I've tried disconnecting the drive and connecting it back again, didn't help I've tried running chkdsk /X from CMD and it says it can't run on a raw drive. What else can I try before I run recovery software (I'm dreading this, since the drive is so large, I'm guessing it'll take days to recover it all). Anything else anyone can think of? The drive is/was formatted NTSF before this.... a friend of mine suggested running disk utility on it on my MAC, would this even work? Any advice would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Bostjan Cadej Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 Try first disk manager in Windows. but be carefull that do don't format your drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_G Riedell Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 Remove all the external drives, then work with just the one that is giving you trouble. Also a smart step if you plan to use a utility on, so you don't accidentally hose the others. You don't mention it, but is it possible that you encrypted that whole drive... and just need to mount it through the proper app? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Louis Rigo Jr Posted November 3, 2015 Author Share Posted November 3, 2015 --George, good thought, but it's my media drive, didn't see the need to encrypt it, so that's not it. --Bostjan, I'll try disk manager in Windows, I'm remote connecting from work, and and getting I/O errors all of a sudden, so now I'm wondering if the controller's not going bad.... Maybe I'll have to try the freezer method... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Marsh Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 Have you tried booting a Linux live cd to see if the drive is readable from "outside" of windows? Might be worth a shot. I have used Piriform's free Recuva to recover files from drives that Windows wouldn't mount. Just don't re-use it until you're sure it's ok. And there's always SpinRite for breathing life into a drive that's experiencing problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Bostjan Cadej Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 I think SpinRite wouldn't solve this problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Marsh Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 That's just FUD. It's also why small shops sell a lot of replacement disks. It "might not" work. It's true that no operation to restore function is guaranteed to work. It's also true that every shot not taken is a guaranteed miss. Disks can run into problems with partitions, and I've seen SR bring MBR and GPT disks back from the edge. As long as the disk spins, doesn't click, and doesn't sound like it's dealing with a mechanical issue, I would not hesitate to run SR. Oh, and as long as the disk isn't greater than 2TB, as SR hasn't caught up with the rapid growth in HDD capacities yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Carlton Dodd Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 +1 for SpinRite! I have recovered SO many lost photos and important business files for myself and friends that it has paid for itself at least 20 times over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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