- Nov 16, 2018
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Hello all,
The other night I shut down my computer with no issues then turned it back on the next night to find that my D:\ drive was missing. After trying to do a couple restarts it still wasn't coming up, so I tried reseating it and did it again with similar results.
After doing some googling and digging I found the Disk Manager, which pops up and says to initialize DISK 0 and I can see my drive sitting there but it says all 2TB are unallocated.
Picture of Disk Management
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can safely recover the data or get it working again? Initializing the disk erases it but it was almost full and has hours of work that I can't just re-download. To the point that I usually make weekly backups but got lazy during covid and its been a few months since I synced it to my backup.
Most the research I do just comes up with those dime-a-dozen robotic voice how tos showing me nothing but how to click initialize.
The other night I shut down my computer with no issues then turned it back on the next night to find that my D:\ drive was missing. After trying to do a couple restarts it still wasn't coming up, so I tried reseating it and did it again with similar results.
After doing some googling and digging I found the Disk Manager, which pops up and says to initialize DISK 0 and I can see my drive sitting there but it says all 2TB are unallocated.
Picture of Disk Management
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can safely recover the data or get it working again? Initializing the disk erases it but it was almost full and has hours of work that I can't just re-download. To the point that I usually make weekly backups but got lazy during covid and its been a few months since I synced it to my backup.
Most the research I do just comes up with those dime-a-dozen robotic voice how tos showing me nothing but how to click initialize.
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