I have had a series of mishaps- all during a time when my father, who served as a Colonel and doctor in the military until 88 and then taught out of love at USC School of Medicin in SC even when he could have been head of psychiatry at MAYO clinic, he remained for us. It is a hard time, and I really want my computer working properly now. So much so that I formatted main SSD hard disk because windows was causing so many issues, and the dead motherboard that I had a good computer store repair, they went above and beyond to help me, but the fact is something was wrong in it (be it a virus or, more likely, the fact I had been on the Microsoft "Insider" team for a while and it is possible that builds which were not meant to exist, did, in my computer. I have finally thrown away the remnants for our main computer.
However, I accidentally chose to do a 'quick format' on the wrong drives when I was installing windows. This does not seem to be a problem with the data retrieval software I have- much of it includes precious memories and pictures of my fatherwho just died of Alzhiemer's and cancer last week, and my son who is about to visit at age 14 for the first time in over two years because of our finances. He loves computers and I have an Oculus- would love to get a really good graphics card so he could experience it fully, but right now I am just trying to get this to work. I also got an older motherboard to stick with my original processor, but I am frustrated at the lack of apparent speed. I am not sure why my computer acts sluggish but- it now has 64 gigs of DDR4 RAM (and I was told my motherboard is quad channelled) so I want my son to get to have a fantastic two weeks.
Please help- right now it is just saying that the western digital "my book" drive lacks the space for it, however, that cannot be possible- as it is 8 terabytes, and the drive I want to recover was maybe three terabytes. I made a smaller partition of 3.9 gigs but it is still saying it lacks the space. I do not understand.
However, I accidentally chose to do a 'quick format' on the wrong drives when I was installing windows. This does not seem to be a problem with the data retrieval software I have- much of it includes precious memories and pictures of my fatherwho just died of Alzhiemer's and cancer last week, and my son who is about to visit at age 14 for the first time in over two years because of our finances. He loves computers and I have an Oculus- would love to get a really good graphics card so he could experience it fully, but right now I am just trying to get this to work. I also got an older motherboard to stick with my original processor, but I am frustrated at the lack of apparent speed. I am not sure why my computer acts sluggish but- it now has 64 gigs of DDR4 RAM (and I was told my motherboard is quad channelled) so I want my son to get to have a fantastic two weeks.
Please help- right now it is just saying that the western digital "my book" drive lacks the space for it, however, that cannot be possible- as it is 8 terabytes, and the drive I want to recover was maybe three terabytes. I made a smaller partition of 3.9 gigs but it is still saying it lacks the space. I do not understand.