First things first: I have searched around the forums and not found an answer.
I've a 4tb drive I'm using for storage of general stuff, I think. And one day I fire up the Pc and it isn't recognized.
Drive doesn't show up in windows explorer. Does show up in Bios just fine, and also WD Dashboard - but the volume is missing, which is the same info as Diskpart gives: Disk ok. no volume.
View: https://imgur.com/a/baSecwX
for various pictures of Disk Manager and WD Dashboard
Ran a few of the various data recovery tools and nothing leaps out as 'this is the problem', just reports a lot of bad sectors.
Driver is up to date (or rather, clicking 'update driver' showed it was on the latest). It wasn't encrypted or anything weird.
Any thoughts on how to fix?
I've a 4tb drive I'm using for storage of general stuff, I think. And one day I fire up the Pc and it isn't recognized.
Drive doesn't show up in windows explorer. Does show up in Bios just fine, and also WD Dashboard - but the volume is missing, which is the same info as Diskpart gives: Disk ok. no volume.
View: https://imgur.com/a/baSecwX
for various pictures of Disk Manager and WD Dashboard
Ran a few of the various data recovery tools and nothing leaps out as 'this is the problem', just reports a lot of bad sectors.
Driver is up to date (or rather, clicking 'update driver' showed it was on the latest). It wasn't encrypted or anything weird.
Any thoughts on how to fix?