Hello all and thank you for your enormous support,
I used to have windows 7 on my alienware M18X R2 and few weeks ago I upgraded it to windows 8.1 Pro.
When I plugged in my Samsung T1 Portable SSD drive, after the new installation of my OS, the activation window of the portable SSD drive popped up so I entered my password and then I got access to the partition where I had all my files in. I copied to the desktop a file from that drive and then I ejected it and went on with my stuff.
After a couple of minutes I re-connected the portable SSD and the activation window popped up again and I entered the password, but unfortunately this time I could see only one empty partition (that I have never seen before) with 128MB of free space with FAT32 and labeled differently from when I first used the SSD.
I tried all those methods I have seen online (checking if there are bad sectors, drivers updates, changing cable, tried it on a different computer with windows 7, on mac laptop, etc..) nothing worked! I can see that the SSD is almost completely full like it used to be but I cannot see the partition containing all those files ?
Can anybody help me please finding a solution?
thank you in advance.
Mario
I used to have windows 7 on my alienware M18X R2 and few weeks ago I upgraded it to windows 8.1 Pro.
When I plugged in my Samsung T1 Portable SSD drive, after the new installation of my OS, the activation window of the portable SSD drive popped up so I entered my password and then I got access to the partition where I had all my files in. I copied to the desktop a file from that drive and then I ejected it and went on with my stuff.
After a couple of minutes I re-connected the portable SSD and the activation window popped up again and I entered the password, but unfortunately this time I could see only one empty partition (that I have never seen before) with 128MB of free space with FAT32 and labeled differently from when I first used the SSD.
I tried all those methods I have seen online (checking if there are bad sectors, drivers updates, changing cable, tried it on a different computer with windows 7, on mac laptop, etc..) nothing worked! I can see that the SSD is almost completely full like it used to be but I cannot see the partition containing all those files ?
Can anybody help me please finding a solution?
thank you in advance.
Mario