Hello! I've read through a lot of posts that describe my problem, but it seems that mine is slightly different from the rest. My drive is still healthy, spinning, and it's so frustrating!
The hardware:
Western Digital My Passport 1 TB
The problem:
Before it became unrecognizable, I was trying to move videos to the external hdd. Long story short, the hdd became unresponsive several times until Windows was unable to recognize it when I plugged it in again. I've tried on two different computers (one running Windows 7 and the other Windows 8) and they both cannot find it.
Attempts:
I've right-clicked My Computer and selected "Manage" to see if it would show up under "Disk Management". It does show up as "Disk 2 Unknown" as drive D: . It also used to show only the drive letter, how much space is raw and that it is "Healthy" (Primary Parition). Now, after hours of trying to use freeware to recover my data, another partition is showing up as "Unallocated" but only 1MB, and the Primary Partition is now at 931.48GB RAW. Update: I clicked "Refresh" in the Computer Management window and now the external hdd isn't showing the space and it is "Not Initialized". I can still click on Properties and it'll tell me that the device is working properly at Location 0. What would happen if I uninstalled the driver? What would happen if I updated the driver? O__o I'm really scared in losing all my files!
I've tried Recuva, iCare, and EaseUs - all of them have showed no space available on the drive and no files to recover!
I've tried running chkdsk on the drive, but of course it says that the drive doesn't exist. >____>
Honestly, I just want to repair it to see if that would sort through the corrupted files and "make it all better" but I don't know what I'm doing!
I know this might sound confusing, but I can definitely try to provide screenshots of what I'm seeing to help out.
Thank you for reading!
The hardware:
Western Digital My Passport 1 TB
The problem:
Before it became unrecognizable, I was trying to move videos to the external hdd. Long story short, the hdd became unresponsive several times until Windows was unable to recognize it when I plugged it in again. I've tried on two different computers (one running Windows 7 and the other Windows 8) and they both cannot find it.
Attempts:
I've right-clicked My Computer and selected "Manage" to see if it would show up under "Disk Management". It does show up as "Disk 2 Unknown" as drive D: . It also used to show only the drive letter, how much space is raw and that it is "Healthy" (Primary Parition). Now, after hours of trying to use freeware to recover my data, another partition is showing up as "Unallocated" but only 1MB, and the Primary Partition is now at 931.48GB RAW. Update: I clicked "Refresh" in the Computer Management window and now the external hdd isn't showing the space and it is "Not Initialized". I can still click on Properties and it'll tell me that the device is working properly at Location 0. What would happen if I uninstalled the driver? What would happen if I updated the driver? O__o I'm really scared in losing all my files!
I've tried Recuva, iCare, and EaseUs - all of them have showed no space available on the drive and no files to recover!
I've tried running chkdsk on the drive, but of course it says that the drive doesn't exist. >____>
Honestly, I just want to repair it to see if that would sort through the corrupted files and "make it all better" but I don't know what I'm doing!
I know this might sound confusing, but I can definitely try to provide screenshots of what I'm seeing to help out.
Thank you for reading!
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