hi there,
this is going to be a long story and a bit complicated too, I hope you guys can bear with me.
The problem right now for me is that a simple switch to a new hard drive enclosure has corrupted multiples drives that were connected to my desktop computer.
I am currently using Windows 7 64 bit for my desktop.
I have a few esata hard drive enclosures connected to my computer.
Recently, one of the enclosures broke down so I bought a new USB 3.0 enclosure and transferred the hard drives over.
I haven't done anything other than installing them.
but after installing it, 2 out of the 3 drives that were installed to the new enclosure got corrupted, let's call them drive A,B.
2 other drives from other enclosures also got corrupted, let's call them drive D,C.
I have no idea what caused these problems.
These are the situations for my current hard drives:
1. Hard Drive D: Windows now thinks it's hard drive A.
For example,
when I plug in only hard drive D, windows thinks I have plugged in hard drive A. And I do see the the partition for hard drive A in my file explorer. However, when I attempt to open the files, all of them are corrupted according to windows.
2. Hard Drive A: for some reason, windows now thinks it's an unallocated drive, whereas nothing was ever done to it. when I scan the drive using a data recovery program like final data, nothing shows up.
3. Hard Drive B: in disk management, it simply says dynamic invalid, whereas the hard drive was never dynamic in the first place.
4. Hard Drive C: windows flat out doesn't recognize it anymore.
In Bios, it now says the hard drive has 0 GB.
This is something that I've never seen before and it's so complicated that I don't even know how to tackle it.
These are the two things that I want to do:
1. Recover the data if possible.
2. Recover or repair the hard drives so that they can be used like new drives. for example, I don't want windows to think drive D is A....
These are the things that I have tried:
1. Try my hard drives on another windows OS, no luck at all.
2. System recovery to an older date, I'm not sure why I tried this, but it didn't change anything.
3. As supposed to connecting them through the enclosure, I connected them directly. no luck at all too.
does anyone have any advice for this?
this is going to be a long story and a bit complicated too, I hope you guys can bear with me.
The problem right now for me is that a simple switch to a new hard drive enclosure has corrupted multiples drives that were connected to my desktop computer.
I am currently using Windows 7 64 bit for my desktop.
I have a few esata hard drive enclosures connected to my computer.
Recently, one of the enclosures broke down so I bought a new USB 3.0 enclosure and transferred the hard drives over.
I haven't done anything other than installing them.
but after installing it, 2 out of the 3 drives that were installed to the new enclosure got corrupted, let's call them drive A,B.
2 other drives from other enclosures also got corrupted, let's call them drive D,C.
I have no idea what caused these problems.
These are the situations for my current hard drives:
1. Hard Drive D: Windows now thinks it's hard drive A.
For example,
when I plug in only hard drive D, windows thinks I have plugged in hard drive A. And I do see the the partition for hard drive A in my file explorer. However, when I attempt to open the files, all of them are corrupted according to windows.
2. Hard Drive A: for some reason, windows now thinks it's an unallocated drive, whereas nothing was ever done to it. when I scan the drive using a data recovery program like final data, nothing shows up.
3. Hard Drive B: in disk management, it simply says dynamic invalid, whereas the hard drive was never dynamic in the first place.
4. Hard Drive C: windows flat out doesn't recognize it anymore.
In Bios, it now says the hard drive has 0 GB.
This is something that I've never seen before and it's so complicated that I don't even know how to tackle it.
These are the two things that I want to do:
1. Recover the data if possible.
2. Recover or repair the hard drives so that they can be used like new drives. for example, I don't want windows to think drive D is A....
These are the things that I have tried:
1. Try my hard drives on another windows OS, no luck at all.
2. System recovery to an older date, I'm not sure why I tried this, but it didn't change anything.
3. As supposed to connecting them through the enclosure, I connected them directly. no luck at all too.
does anyone have any advice for this?
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