- Jan 6, 2012
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Hi all,
I'm a naturally wordy person and I'm going to try to be concise:
■Decided today to swap out my 80gb SSD C: drive for a 180GB SSD (Both Intel)
■Contemplated cloning but decided to do the "right thing" and do a fresh Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit install
■Windows Installer within current Windows wasn't seeing the new SSD (went into diskmgmt.msc and made it GBT or whatever, as current 80gb SSD was, it still didn't see it. Didn't want to actually partition it because I thought that'd lock it in as a different drive letter when I wanted it to end up as C: - then I did partition it, and it still didn't see it. Booting up into the Windows disc straight into installer, it still didn't see it.
■Unhooked current 80gb SSD C: drive and plugged same SATA cable into new SSD, in Windows installer at bootup it listed my 2tb D: drive where Steam, all my music, photos, videos, documents, downloads... everything... is at, as "Drive 0" which I naturally thought was the FIRST SATA cable in the order, and the total size of the drive's main partition was like 18**** and looked enough like the 180gb that the new drive should be showing up as, that I rashly, stupidly, STUPIDLY formatted it on all 3 of it's partitions before I realized "wait... no... no I didn't did I?"
So now here's my situation and my questions:
I've downloaded the program Recuva, and it's currently at 33% estimating 4 hours - though that estimate has fluctuated a lot between 5, 10 hours... then back down then up again... it seems fairly settled into 4 hours but I just ran out and grabbed a 3tb because I'd considered it earlier when I got the 180gb SSD anyway, and some of what I was reading online (on the same sites recommending Recuva etc) were saying that you need a NEW place to restore the items TO. I have no idea what to expect of this Recuva thing and what it will be able to recover... but I can't help but wonder if I should cancel it's scan now, and get this new 3tb drive into the system. I started the scan before I went to Best Buy for the 3tb, and so I'm wondering will I get the opportunity to place the new 3tb drive into the system after the scan but before the restore attempt? Without going back to square 1? Will the program remember what it detected or will it be "restore what we found now, or you have to start the scan all over again" see what I mean?
I'm worried I'm wasting time with a scan that I won't be able to execute a restore from because I don't yet have a place large enough to put the files from this nearly full 2tb drive.
I'm also basically just assuming that I'm going to have to reinstall Steam, and all programs (mostly games) that were on that drive... and I feel like if I got the 3tb drive in there now, I could at least start doing that onto there. Be getting more accomplished than just this scan...
but that opens up another question. Obviously my attempts to get the new 180gb SSD recognized and Windows installed onto it halted when this went down... but is there any point reinstalling Steam etc onto the new 3TB drive if I don't get the new 180gb SSD as the C: drive first? But it seems really ill-advised to try to mess with the 180gb SSD again now.
Whenever I *do* get back to trying to make that my new C: drive, can anyone help me understand what I need to do to it to get Windows installer (either from within the current Windows install, or from straight off the disc) to recognize the dang thing?
TLDR:
1.) Need advice on what to expect from Recuva and whether it retains what it found in it's scan through a restart (so I can install new 3tb drive and THEN do the recovery
2.) Need general advise on how to handle this situation, what order to do the steps described in, what precautions to take.
3.) Open to suggestions of better program to use than Recuva
4.) Heard people talking about 500gb taking 12 hours on Recuva, hence at nearly 2tb full me wanting to be taking advantage of the time to be accomplishing other things like starting up the new 3TB as my new primary storage and game D: drive like the formatted 2tb one was. Transferring whatever it can recover onto it when that time comes.
Deepest appreciation and thanks for anyone who takes the time to read this and respond, you knowledgeable people are the BEST.
I'm a naturally wordy person and I'm going to try to be concise:
■Decided today to swap out my 80gb SSD C: drive for a 180GB SSD (Both Intel)
■Contemplated cloning but decided to do the "right thing" and do a fresh Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit install
■Windows Installer within current Windows wasn't seeing the new SSD (went into diskmgmt.msc and made it GBT or whatever, as current 80gb SSD was, it still didn't see it. Didn't want to actually partition it because I thought that'd lock it in as a different drive letter when I wanted it to end up as C: - then I did partition it, and it still didn't see it. Booting up into the Windows disc straight into installer, it still didn't see it.
■Unhooked current 80gb SSD C: drive and plugged same SATA cable into new SSD, in Windows installer at bootup it listed my 2tb D: drive where Steam, all my music, photos, videos, documents, downloads... everything... is at, as "Drive 0" which I naturally thought was the FIRST SATA cable in the order, and the total size of the drive's main partition was like 18**** and looked enough like the 180gb that the new drive should be showing up as, that I rashly, stupidly, STUPIDLY formatted it on all 3 of it's partitions before I realized "wait... no... no I didn't did I?"
So now here's my situation and my questions:
I've downloaded the program Recuva, and it's currently at 33% estimating 4 hours - though that estimate has fluctuated a lot between 5, 10 hours... then back down then up again... it seems fairly settled into 4 hours but I just ran out and grabbed a 3tb because I'd considered it earlier when I got the 180gb SSD anyway, and some of what I was reading online (on the same sites recommending Recuva etc) were saying that you need a NEW place to restore the items TO. I have no idea what to expect of this Recuva thing and what it will be able to recover... but I can't help but wonder if I should cancel it's scan now, and get this new 3tb drive into the system. I started the scan before I went to Best Buy for the 3tb, and so I'm wondering will I get the opportunity to place the new 3tb drive into the system after the scan but before the restore attempt? Without going back to square 1? Will the program remember what it detected or will it be "restore what we found now, or you have to start the scan all over again" see what I mean?
I'm worried I'm wasting time with a scan that I won't be able to execute a restore from because I don't yet have a place large enough to put the files from this nearly full 2tb drive.
I'm also basically just assuming that I'm going to have to reinstall Steam, and all programs (mostly games) that were on that drive... and I feel like if I got the 3tb drive in there now, I could at least start doing that onto there. Be getting more accomplished than just this scan...
but that opens up another question. Obviously my attempts to get the new 180gb SSD recognized and Windows installed onto it halted when this went down... but is there any point reinstalling Steam etc onto the new 3TB drive if I don't get the new 180gb SSD as the C: drive first? But it seems really ill-advised to try to mess with the 180gb SSD again now.
Whenever I *do* get back to trying to make that my new C: drive, can anyone help me understand what I need to do to it to get Windows installer (either from within the current Windows install, or from straight off the disc) to recognize the dang thing?
TLDR:
1.) Need advice on what to expect from Recuva and whether it retains what it found in it's scan through a restart (so I can install new 3tb drive and THEN do the recovery
2.) Need general advise on how to handle this situation, what order to do the steps described in, what precautions to take.
3.) Open to suggestions of better program to use than Recuva
4.) Heard people talking about 500gb taking 12 hours on Recuva, hence at nearly 2tb full me wanting to be taking advantage of the time to be accomplishing other things like starting up the new 3TB as my new primary storage and game D: drive like the formatted 2tb one was. Transferring whatever it can recover onto it when that time comes.
Deepest appreciation and thanks for anyone who takes the time to read this and respond, you knowledgeable people are the BEST.
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