Hello,
I'm uprading to a new PC and I'm reusing my storage setup from my laptop [SSD+HDD]. I wanted to clone my SSD to an external (3rd) HDD, then doing a fresh install of windows on the new PC, then bring back my personal data from the external HDD. So I went ahead and created a bootable copy of Miray HDClone on a USB. I succesfully booted into it, and started copying. It got stuck after a while, this happens quite often with this software so I just canceled the copying and started over. It still wouldn't work. I don't remember exactly what I did but I ended up restarting my laptop with the intention of booting into the USB again, but this time my PC wouldn't recognize any booting devices. I though it was the laptops problem because it had problems with setting up boot sequence since i first got it, so I decided to just copy the harddrives on my new PC. When I plugged the drives into my new PC, I wanted to boot into the USB again, with no luck. Booting into the SSD itself also wouldn't work. (there was still a copy of windows on it) So I took the drives and plugged them into another laptop with a USB. To my suprise ALL of the drives that were connected to my laptop at the time (including the USB drive) had their partitions damaged/corrupted and were in RAW format, so I can't access them.
On the SSD I tried chkdsk, Partition Recovery and Data Recovery from MiniTool Partition Wizard, nothing came up. I decided to try recovering the 32GB booting USB first (although there is nothing important to recover) because It's faster than scanning a 500GB SSD. I'm currently running testdisk in the background. I was able to recover some log files from the HDClone using R-STUDIO, as well as some .sfw files (in total they were 9gb in size?). Nothing out of the ordinary came out of the logs, I canceled both of the cloning attempts so nothing was copied. I'll try that on the SSD overnight as well. I have no idea what happened. I have a feeling that all it takes is some kind of stupid simple thing to do. I don't believe ALL of the data on ALL of the drives got corrupted somehow. I didn't format any of the drives, neither I tried writing anything to them, so some of the data should still be recoverable I guess.
Any suggestions on what I can try?
I'm uprading to a new PC and I'm reusing my storage setup from my laptop [SSD+HDD]. I wanted to clone my SSD to an external (3rd) HDD, then doing a fresh install of windows on the new PC, then bring back my personal data from the external HDD. So I went ahead and created a bootable copy of Miray HDClone on a USB. I succesfully booted into it, and started copying. It got stuck after a while, this happens quite often with this software so I just canceled the copying and started over. It still wouldn't work. I don't remember exactly what I did but I ended up restarting my laptop with the intention of booting into the USB again, but this time my PC wouldn't recognize any booting devices. I though it was the laptops problem because it had problems with setting up boot sequence since i first got it, so I decided to just copy the harddrives on my new PC. When I plugged the drives into my new PC, I wanted to boot into the USB again, with no luck. Booting into the SSD itself also wouldn't work. (there was still a copy of windows on it) So I took the drives and plugged them into another laptop with a USB. To my suprise ALL of the drives that were connected to my laptop at the time (including the USB drive) had their partitions damaged/corrupted and were in RAW format, so I can't access them.
On the SSD I tried chkdsk, Partition Recovery and Data Recovery from MiniTool Partition Wizard, nothing came up. I decided to try recovering the 32GB booting USB first (although there is nothing important to recover) because It's faster than scanning a 500GB SSD. I'm currently running testdisk in the background. I was able to recover some log files from the HDClone using R-STUDIO, as well as some .sfw files (in total they were 9gb in size?). Nothing out of the ordinary came out of the logs, I canceled both of the cloning attempts so nothing was copied. I'll try that on the SSD overnight as well. I have no idea what happened. I have a feeling that all it takes is some kind of stupid simple thing to do. I don't believe ALL of the data on ALL of the drives got corrupted somehow. I didn't format any of the drives, neither I tried writing anything to them, so some of the data should still be recoverable I guess.
Any suggestions on what I can try?