External Hard drive not initialized all of the sudden

[thelolster32]

So I have a Seagate 2 TB USB 3.0 external that was of my cousin's. I was copying some movies when my computer crashed while the process was still ongoing. After that my cousin's drive was now not readable and only sometimes seen as not initialized in the disc management.

Please help some files here are important to my cousin.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Is it showing any progress?
May be the drive has locked up.

 

[thelolster32]

Is it showing any progress?
May be the drive has locked up.

It's showing this now nearly 8 hrs in progress. I believe this is because I placed a usb 3.0 drive to a Usb 2.0 port which is pretty slow.

 

[thelolster32]

Should I now initialize and try to recover the files after initializing? I'm in a desperate attempt trying to recover these files.

UPDATE: 10hrs has already passed and it's nearly night.

 

[thelolster32]

The device was detected but still not shown in file explorer. After removing and putting the hard drive back in the enclosure, the device was named and it showed the device name which was not shown before I removed the drive from it's enclosure.

 

[thelolster32]

Somehow cancelling it also takes so long.

 

[seagate_surfer]

thelolster32, the process can take a very long time. Please let it finish if it has not done so yet. The DIY softwarwe will scan your drive and tell you what is recoverable. Please read the link embedded above. At the end, what was the result?

 

[thelolster32]

thelolster32, the process can take a very long time. Please let it finish if it has not done so yet. The DIY softwarwe will scan your drive and tell you what is recoverable. Please read the link embedded above. At the end, what was the result?

Nope, my pc crashed, I'm going to try again.

 

[thelolster32]

UPDATE: I plugged the drive in a laptop and it shows this. Should I hope for the best with this?

 

[SkyNetRising]

It's some progress at least.
Clean it with diskpart. Then see if disk capacity changes to normal.
Execute this from elevated command prompt:

• diskpart
  list disk
  select disk x ( x- number of appropriate disk, should be 2)
  clean
  exit

Make sure you select the right disk. Clean command is data destructive.
Clean command removes drive partition data and drive signature. Files are still recoverable.

After that you can use GetDataBack to recover your files.
https://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm

 

[thelolster32]

It's some progress at least.
Clean it with diskpart. Then see if disk capacity changes to normal.
Execute this from elevated command prompt:

• diskpart
  list disk
  select disk x ( x- number of appropriate disk, should be 2)
  clean
  exit

Make sure you select the right disk. Clean command is data destructive.

After that you can use GetDataBack to recover your files.
https://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm

can it recover most of the data? Like, is there no paywall within you and the files.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Getdataback demo allows to see, if it can recover anything. Full version recovers it.
You can either buy it or get from p2p sites.

You can try other recovery software also - like Recuva for example.

 

[thelolster32]

Getdataback demo allows to see, if it can recover anything. Full version recovers it.
You can either buy it or get from p2p sites.

You can try other recovery software also - like Recuva for example.

Where is it here:

 

[SkyNetRising]

Disk 2 - 127PB. This one obviously has wrong identification. Correct capacity would be ~ 1862GB.

 

[thelolster32]

Disk 2 - 127PB. This one obviously has wrong identification.

Recuva does not have limits right?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Recuva does not have limits right?

Not sure about that one. Have had good results with getdataback.

 

[thelolster32]

Disk 2 - 127PB. This one obviously has wrong identification. Correct capacity would be ~ 1862GB.

I did the command you said but it is still unallocated and not initialized. Should I initialize then use the recovery software.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Did the capacity change? Yes - initialize and try to recover anything.
You'll need another 2TB drive to store recovered files.

 

[thelolster32]

Did the capacity change? Yes - initialize and try to recover anything.
You'll need another 2TB drive to store recovered files.

The capacity did not change.

 

[SkyNetRising]

You can try changing drive partitioning from MBR to GPT and back to MBR to see, if that resets the capacity.
If you try recovery from 127PB disk, it most likely will fail with error.

 

[thelolster32]

You can try changing drive partitioning from MBR to GPT and back to MBR to see, if that resets the capacity.
If you try recovery from 127PB disk, it most likely will fail with error.

It says failed because of an I/O error. Should I change the data cable that the hard drive uses?

 

[thelolster32]

Well when I had the chance it went downhill quickly...
It returned to unknown and not initialized

 

[SkyNetRising]

Data cable shouldn't change anything. What's the current state of Disk Management? Is it still showing capacity?

 

[thelolster32]

Data cable shouldn't change anything. What's the current state of Disk Management? Is it still showing capacity?

It's does not show the capacity no more. What should I do now? And how did it show capacity after days of not showing it anyways.

 

[thelolster32]

Wait... Now the capacity is back but still not initialize and unallocated.