Hdd uninitalized itself?

[Scrap3]

My HDD is
Seagate - Barracuda ES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
It's been working fine until now (had it for about 5 months), but after deleting a game from my desktop there is now a blue question mark on the HDD in file explorer and in disk manager it's labeled as uninitiazed.
Whenever I try re-initialize it it either says "the system cannot find the file specified" (when trying in MBR) or "the specified disk is not convertible because the size is less than the minimum specified" (when trying GPT)
I can still play games that are on it but I'm worried new updates are going to start going to my SSD
Is it a virus? Or just a weird glitch?
I'd rather not download anything to fix it (kinda paranoid about it) but I will if really needed

 

[RolandJS]

You do have current, recent, restorable, OS and data backups, correct? If the HD is heading for a physical failure, those restores will probably come in very handy with a replacement HD. If logical failure, backups ... ditto ... with this same HD.

 

[Scrap3]

You do have current, recent, restorable, OS and data backups, correct? If the HD is heading for a physical failure, those restores will probably come in very handy with a replacement HD. If logical failure, backups...ditto...with this same HD.

Does it sound like it's physically failing? That never even occurred to me

 

[RolandJS]

I'm not at all sure whether it's physical or logical failure, just make sure you have current, restorable, image backups of your OS and data partitions on external media.

 

[Scrap3]

I'm not at all sure whether it's physical or logical failure, just make sure you have current, restorable, image backups of your OS and data partitions on external media.

It was physical failure, I tried backing it up but I couldn’t. There were only games on it and all the important stuff was on my ssd though so it’ll just be an annoyance to get everything downloaded again

 

[Andrea Mathew]

I suggest you not to perform any operations on the hard drive as it is showing as uninitialized. Data might be lost, because I have experienced a similar situation. Fortunately I came across an article during my research and it helped me. I got all the files from the partition which was labeled as uninitialized. I would suggest you to go through this page: https://www.remosoftware.com/computer-hard-drive-recovery
Hope this would help.

 

[RolandJS]

Remo Recoverer is a trial version, how will that help this situation? The pay-for is $99.00.

 

[Andrea Mathew]

Hi,
Initially even I thought its a free software and went ahead with the trial version. But after seeing the result I dint give a second thought as those files were important to me. Now its up to you to buy it or not..

 

[RolandJS]

Andrew, I'd like to learn more! How did the trial version help you recover your stuff? And, are there lots of goodies with the pay-for that the trial version does not have?

 

[Andrea Mathew]

When I downloaded this software it scanned my computer hard drive and showed the result of recovered files. But in order to save those recovered files in my system I had to buy it. One advantage I saw was that we can use this software life long once purchased.