I recently did a fresh install of windows 8, and upon powering it up i am noticing the 1TB data drive that I had is no longer in file explorer, and under disk management, it is listed as unallocated, and not initialized. The only reason i didnt mind installing windows is that the info was all on this backup internal drive. I have two 120GB ssd's raid 0'd for my primary O/S and application drive, and i am stumped as to getting all my data back. I had trouble getting windows to install and had to clean the ssd drives volume in diskpart prior to windows letting me install on it. I haven't formatted or changed the name of the data drive so I'm thinking it should be possible to get the drive to be recognized by windows again, with the data intact?
Image of Disk Management and DiskPart Readout
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The reason I was reinstalling windows is because I kept getting BSOD to the point where the computer would BSOD immediately after POSTing. I thought originally it was shitty drivers, but it literally just started BSODing one day, re-installed windows, kept bsod, computer has just gone from completely stable as a rock to completely unstable. Only thing that was ever wrong or complaint about Computer is last few months, the left monitor would go black for about 1 second, then the screen would reload. it is the primary display. its not the monitor, as when using the monitor on any other computer or output it works fine, just dual screen, intermittently, and completely randomly would almost like it lost input signal. the secondary display is run via DVI->VGA-> monitor. Primary is run HDMI and audio is passed to the monitor via the HDMI. The PC has had issues updating ever since i've tried reinstalling windows and it has been a major shit fest trying to get it stable again. right now, its stable enough to boot and not take 10-15 boot cycles to finally boot into windows, but the last update just failed. I could use some troubleshooting help in general, but right now my primary concern is getting the data drive to be a recognized drive hopefully with all of my data in tact on it so I can attempt to back it up and then I can really tinker and figure out whats going on. The data drive is the backup, I just didn't plan on the back up failing/not being accessible.
Image of Disk Management and DiskPart Readout
http://postimg.org/image/3r01akgq3/full/
The reason I was reinstalling windows is because I kept getting BSOD to the point where the computer would BSOD immediately after POSTing. I thought originally it was shitty drivers, but it literally just started BSODing one day, re-installed windows, kept bsod, computer has just gone from completely stable as a rock to completely unstable. Only thing that was ever wrong or complaint about Computer is last few months, the left monitor would go black for about 1 second, then the screen would reload. it is the primary display. its not the monitor, as when using the monitor on any other computer or output it works fine, just dual screen, intermittently, and completely randomly would almost like it lost input signal. the secondary display is run via DVI->VGA-> monitor. Primary is run HDMI and audio is passed to the monitor via the HDMI. The PC has had issues updating ever since i've tried reinstalling windows and it has been a major shit fest trying to get it stable again. right now, its stable enough to boot and not take 10-15 boot cycles to finally boot into windows, but the last update just failed. I could use some troubleshooting help in general, but right now my primary concern is getting the data drive to be a recognized drive hopefully with all of my data in tact on it so I can attempt to back it up and then I can really tinker and figure out whats going on. The data drive is the backup, I just didn't plan on the back up failing/not being accessible.
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