Question Internal SATA HDD has become inaccessible ?

[yossibac]

Hi, Internal SATA HDD has become inaccessible, it's used as storage. It's not that old and has had minimal use.

• It shows in the BIOS.
• In Windows it shows the drive name, drive letter and NTFS.
• In Disk Manager it looks like a BASIC drive.

I can probably reformat it and re-use it, but although I have most of it backed up, I would like to see what's in it.
What I get when I click on it is:

Location is not available
D:\ is not accessible.
Access is denied.

I do have full permission, so it's not that.
I already ran chkdsk D:/f/r but to no avail.
Next stage is to use a recovery software I think.
What do you guys think?
Could you recomend a free and reliable software please?
Thank You.

 

[HeerZakdoeK]

I'd use Windows bootable USB (or AIOBOOT app) to go into recovery environment. Then use tools to try to fix MBR/GPT and for searching hidden partitions/data rescue.

 

[geofelt]

Buy a USB to sata adapter cable and connect the drive.
You should be able to see the contents and copy them.

 

[yossibac]

Buy a USB to sata adapter cable and connect the drive.
You should be able to see the contents and copy them.

I have got a USB caddy, but unfortunately it's the same problem even in another computer.
Although not accessable, the drive is visible by Windows 10 as drive F: (not the operating system drive)
Any idea what has happened all of the sudden. as it was fine a day before? Please see photo.

https://imgur.com/a/8rBN1Fs

View: https://imgur.com/a/8rBN1Fs

 

[yossibac]

I forgot to say, that it happened after I disconnected the drive to install Windows 10 on a fresh Hard disk.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I forgot to say, that it happened after I disconnected the drive to install Windows 10 on a fresh Hard disk.

What's the model name of the drive?

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management?
Connect the drive directly to pc with sata cables. No usb adapters.

Also show screenshot from Hdtune health.

 

[yossibac]

What's the model name of the drive?

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management?
Connect the drive directly to pc with sata cables. No usb adapters.

Also show screenshot from Hdtune health.

Hi SkyNetRising
WD5000KS Caviar Blue
Disk Managmet looks normal like you would expect from a heathy drive
Sorry not sure what Hdtune is

 

[SkyNetRising]

Disk Managmet looks normal like you would expect from a heathy drive
Sorry not sure what Hdtune is

Just show the screenshots.
Download HDtune here - free 2.55 version.

HD Tune website

HD Tune

www.hdtune.com

 

[yossibac]

https://imgur.com/a/NujbGPI

View: https://imgur.com/a/NujbGPI


Thanks, here you go.
You can see that the drive is not accessible in My Computer but looks fine in Disk Management.
I now connected the drive to my testing PC to be on the safe side.
Will install HD tune after I finish running DMDE 3.8.0 to rescue data on the drive.

 

[yossibac]

Just show the screenshots.
Download HDtune here - free 2.55 version.

HD Tune website

HD Tune

www.hdtune.com

https://imgur.com/a/UTxPYUL

View: https://imgur.com/a/UTxPYUL


Please see 4 HD tune tests screen shots.
Everything looking OK as far as I can tell.
I can access drive with data recovery software.
Is the drive locked or it's maybe a virus?
All the other hard drives in the system are working as they should.

 

[yossibac]

OK, I found the culprit,
Amazingly, no online search direct search results to Tom's with that problem.
I understand why people here not willing to help to a possible data hack.
I will start a new post to explain what had happened in due course.
Thank you nonetheless.