I've got a 3tb drive, it's using the GPT partition obviously and was working like a charm. I rebuilt my PC a few days ago and everything was still good. For some stupid-ass reason Microsoft windows thought the up to date Intel MST driver was not good enough and rolled my v12 driver back to v8.6 (not 3tb compatible).
As a result, it saw my drive as faulty and ran a chkdsk during reboot (I only knew this due to the event log). When I logged in the following day the drive had 2.2tb of space used, but only shows me 43.3gb of files (even when everything is visible and no protected system files). Even after reloading the v12 drivers, it still reports this.
chkdsk says there's 5100 files on the drive, IT knows they're there but recurva, windows and anything else I throw at it don't seem to. Recurva finds files but doesn't know their names or directory associations. It doesn't find all 5100 but it finds most.
It looks like the chkdsk windows ran while on the version 8.6 drivers created an MBR, or at least damaged the true GPT in some way or another. Everything I've run at it (WinDirStat, Recurva, testdisk) all can see that the drive has 2.2tb of data and nothing else. I need to get this data back and i'm out of ideas.
Ironically, the rebuild was due me installing this in a new raid-capable system, but the partner 3tb never came online before windows blew this away with it's god damned windows update.
Anyone know how I can recover the data? I've got the 2nd 3tb drive available to pull the stuff off and move it long enough to reformat. I've run SMART diagnostics and the drive itself is fine, even though chkdsk shoved the 2tb of data into a "Bad sectors" section of it's stats.
As a result, it saw my drive as faulty and ran a chkdsk during reboot (I only knew this due to the event log). When I logged in the following day the drive had 2.2tb of space used, but only shows me 43.3gb of files (even when everything is visible and no protected system files). Even after reloading the v12 drivers, it still reports this.
chkdsk says there's 5100 files on the drive, IT knows they're there but recurva, windows and anything else I throw at it don't seem to. Recurva finds files but doesn't know their names or directory associations. It doesn't find all 5100 but it finds most.
It looks like the chkdsk windows ran while on the version 8.6 drivers created an MBR, or at least damaged the true GPT in some way or another. Everything I've run at it (WinDirStat, Recurva, testdisk) all can see that the drive has 2.2tb of data and nothing else. I need to get this data back and i'm out of ideas.
Ironically, the rebuild was due me installing this in a new raid-capable system, but the partner 3tb never came online before windows blew this away with it's god damned windows update.
Anyone know how I can recover the data? I've got the 2nd 3tb drive available to pull the stuff off and move it long enough to reformat. I've run SMART diagnostics and the drive itself is fine, even though chkdsk shoved the 2tb of data into a "Bad sectors" section of it's stats.
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