Thanks in advance for any help here. My drive is a 2-TB My Book (USB 3.0).
I had unplugged it from my computer and hooked it to my son's to write an image of his old HD using Acronis Snap Deploy in order to write that image to a new SSD.
While trying to write the image to the SSD...well, dads can be stupid and I apparently set the target disk to the same as the source disk (the My Book). Acronis immediately threw an error, but apparently not before it wiped out the partition table (or otherwise made the My Book unreadable).
I brought it back up to my computer, plugged it in, and it shows in Windows Disk Manager as unallocated space. I have not attempted to Initialize it or anything.
My question boils down to this: Is there a simple way to just re-set the partition so that it can magically be put back the way it was.
I know there are file-recovery programs out there, but I want to avoid 2 TB of anonymous files to sift through, but if that's the best I can hope for, it's better than nothing.
Thank you for any advice on this.
--Jim
I had unplugged it from my computer and hooked it to my son's to write an image of his old HD using Acronis Snap Deploy in order to write that image to a new SSD.
While trying to write the image to the SSD...well, dads can be stupid and I apparently set the target disk to the same as the source disk (the My Book). Acronis immediately threw an error, but apparently not before it wiped out the partition table (or otherwise made the My Book unreadable).
I brought it back up to my computer, plugged it in, and it shows in Windows Disk Manager as unallocated space. I have not attempted to Initialize it or anything.
My question boils down to this: Is there a simple way to just re-set the partition so that it can magically be put back the way it was.
I know there are file-recovery programs out there, but I want to avoid 2 TB of anonymous files to sift through, but if that's the best I can hope for, it's better than nothing.
Thank you for any advice on this.
--Jim
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