Corrupt hardrive after switching cables

[rcc]

Greetings,

Have is my problem. I had 2 identical (size and model) externals SATA hard drives connected to my computer. While the computer was sleeping I unplugged the power cord from the drive 1 and then flipped the SATA cables in order to test them. Then I woke the computer up, and now the files on drive 2 are gone and Windows Explorer show drive 2 with the same files that are on the drive 1. If I try to open any of these "new" files, Windows tells me they are corrupt. I even ran the Windows check disk with no success. Is there a way I can recover my original files?

 

[USAFRet]

Sleeping is not OFF.
What happens after you do a whole reboot?

 

[rcc]

Yes, i did a reboot and Windows show drive 2 with all the files that are on drive 1. It even changed the disk label to drive 1

 

[sizzling]

As above, your mistake was doing this while the PC was in sleep mode and not off

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, i did a reboot and Windows show drive 2 with all the files that are on drive 1.

You're reading this wrong or something. The files can't automagically jump from one drive to the other.

 

[Rogue Leader]

You should shut the PC off. Swap the cables back, boot it to make sure it looks like it was. Then shut the PC OFF, and swap again. Never swap anything but a USB or a headphone cable while the PC is sleeping or ON

 

[rcc]

NO, not the drive letters.. Just the name of the disk. I had them named "disk 1" and "disk2, now disk 1 is says it;s "disk 2"

 

[rcc]

Yes, i did a reboot and Windows show drive 2 with all the files that are on drive 1.

You're reading this wrong or something. The files can't automatically jump from one drive to the other.

They didn't jump, it just appears that files from disk 2 are now on disk 1. If I try to open these "files" it won't work.

It seems to me that the original files are still on the disk and something got corrupted (maybe MDT table?) so the system thinks that drive 1 is drive 2.

 

[rcc]

Yes, i did a reboot and Windows show drive 2 with all the files that are on drive 1.

You mean your drive letters changed? ... :lol:

You should shut the PC off. Swap the cables back, boot it to make sure it looks like it was. Then shut the PC OFF, and swap again. Never swap anything but a USB or a headphone cable while the PC is sleeping or ON

That didn't do it. It seems to me that maybe MFT got replaced with the one from drive 2 and now the system sees drive 1 as if it was drive 2.