As the title states, the above happened earlier today I think. It's only a few months old, but the warranty isn't relevant, since the data is far more important than the drive.
The first thing I did after trying the drive in 3 different PC's with the same result was remove the drive from the enclosure (Warranty Void I Know), and connected it up inside my PC. It still says not Initiliazed and 2794.52GB unallocated space.
Of course I'm aware that if I say yes to initializing my drive I'll definitely do damage to my data, so I won't be doing that. The disk spins up and detects fine, but I can't access my data.
I read on another forum about a program called MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition, and I'm trying it now, it's 46% complete and hasn't found the partition yet though.
I'm still trying to think positive about this since the fact that the drive isn't completely dead seems promising.
In case it helps, the problem seemed to have occurred after 3 power cuts which happened earlier today. I assumed it was just the enclosure that had failed, but no such luck.
Any advice or suggestions on free or cheap recovery tools I could try would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
The first thing I did after trying the drive in 3 different PC's with the same result was remove the drive from the enclosure (Warranty Void I Know), and connected it up inside my PC. It still says not Initiliazed and 2794.52GB unallocated space.
Of course I'm aware that if I say yes to initializing my drive I'll definitely do damage to my data, so I won't be doing that. The disk spins up and detects fine, but I can't access my data.
I read on another forum about a program called MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition, and I'm trying it now, it's 46% complete and hasn't found the partition yet though.
I'm still trying to think positive about this since the fact that the drive isn't completely dead seems promising.
In case it helps, the problem seemed to have occurred after 3 power cuts which happened earlier today. I assumed it was just the enclosure that had failed, but no such luck.
Any advice or suggestions on free or cheap recovery tools I could try would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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