Hey, I have a PC built in 2015ish that was top of line at the time. I inherited it a couple years later, and it's worked for my needs so I never bothered to update it.
I booted it up this morning and everything seemed normal. It was on for a couple of hours before I started playing Warframe, but as I was playing I noticed the PC was making a funny noise, like a high pitched whirl. I decided to check it it as soon as I got out of the mission I was in, but 10 minutes later the game crashed. Out of curiosity I tried to re-open it but it asked where I wanted to install the game. Whhhuuuu?? Long story short, after that I discovered my E and F drives have disappeared.
Rebooting didn't fix it. I opened up Disk Management and all it shows is C drive, status Healthy, at 476 gb (sounds about right, no extra space there). No other drives show up, not even letter-less ones. Same goes if I use cmd to use Disk Part. I ran a scan with Malwarebytes and came back clean. I haven't downloaded anything or made any changes, no updates outside of Warframe updating several days ago.
As this point I'm at a loss. I've tried googling but everything that comes back sounds like it was written by AI and is trying to push their software, which makes it seem super sketch. I've seen several hard drive testing / recovery programs but idk which to use. Is TestDisk a good one? I'm using Win 7 if that matters.
I really REALLY need to recovered what was on the drives. Not only important information, but videos related to work and most importantly, precious photos and videos from before my father passed and of my kids.
I booted it up this morning and everything seemed normal. It was on for a couple of hours before I started playing Warframe, but as I was playing I noticed the PC was making a funny noise, like a high pitched whirl. I decided to check it it as soon as I got out of the mission I was in, but 10 minutes later the game crashed. Out of curiosity I tried to re-open it but it asked where I wanted to install the game. Whhhuuuu?? Long story short, after that I discovered my E and F drives have disappeared.
Rebooting didn't fix it. I opened up Disk Management and all it shows is C drive, status Healthy, at 476 gb (sounds about right, no extra space there). No other drives show up, not even letter-less ones. Same goes if I use cmd to use Disk Part. I ran a scan with Malwarebytes and came back clean. I haven't downloaded anything or made any changes, no updates outside of Warframe updating several days ago.
As this point I'm at a loss. I've tried googling but everything that comes back sounds like it was written by AI and is trying to push their software, which makes it seem super sketch. I've seen several hard drive testing / recovery programs but idk which to use. Is TestDisk a good one? I'm using Win 7 if that matters.
I really REALLY need to recovered what was on the drives. Not only important information, but videos related to work and most importantly, precious photos and videos from before my father passed and of my kids.
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