Hi Everybody,
I currently use internal hard drives as storage for projects as they are complete. I have a hot-swappable internal hard drive reader to copy files from my primary drive to a storage drive. This is the first time this has ever occurred, and I'm hoping I can reverse whatever happened.
After my computer was off, I inserted a new hard drive and turned the computer on. My computer mis-identified the inserted hard drive as a different storage hard drive and said it needed to check for errors. I saw that the drive was reading as the wrong number (I have them named by number) so I hoped by checking for errors it would fix itself. Well....I did the error check, and when I opened the hard drive on My Computer, half of the data is missing.
1 ) Is this data recoverable? If so, what would be the best procedure?
2) Is this a symptom of a failing hard drive?
3 ) How can I ensure this doesn't happen again?
Please help!
I currently use internal hard drives as storage for projects as they are complete. I have a hot-swappable internal hard drive reader to copy files from my primary drive to a storage drive. This is the first time this has ever occurred, and I'm hoping I can reverse whatever happened.
After my computer was off, I inserted a new hard drive and turned the computer on. My computer mis-identified the inserted hard drive as a different storage hard drive and said it needed to check for errors. I saw that the drive was reading as the wrong number (I have them named by number) so I hoped by checking for errors it would fix itself. Well....I did the error check, and when I opened the hard drive on My Computer, half of the data is missing.
1 ) Is this data recoverable? If so, what would be the best procedure?
2) Is this a symptom of a failing hard drive?
3 ) How can I ensure this doesn't happen again?
Please help!