So I was trying to retrieve some old files off an old 250 Seagate Drive, I decided to just clone the whole drive onto my 1 TB Seagate drive, I had like 500 GB or so left of storage on it and I was only transferring like 90 GB. However, for some reason (whether its supposed to or not), during the cloning process, it wiped my 1 TB HDD, and everything was gone. Its not the data that makes me upset, its easily replaced, but the Hard drive is no longer being seen by my O/S (windows 10). I have checked the BIOS to see if its there and it is. It shows the drive, I don't know if I wiped some sort or firmware or something, but if I can get this drive to work it would be very helpful.
Hard Drive Wiped during Cloning
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Kawaii Penguin
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My best guess is that it overwritten the current files on your 1TB drive, and that its gone for good. But who knows, maybe someone else has a better answer than me; as I've never cloned a drive before ; )
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Yes, cloning from one drive to another will wipe whatever is on the target drive.
Presumably these weren't the OS drive(s)?
Seen in the BIOS...is it seen in Disk Management?
Can you post a screencap of your Disk Management window?
Presumably these weren't the OS drive(s)?
Seen in the BIOS...is it seen in Disk Management?
Can you post a screencap of your Disk Management window?
Cloning makes a complete *DISK* clone. What you did was copied every sector from the 250GB to the 1TB which obviously clobbers whatever is on the 1TB.
In Disk Management you should still see the 1TB drive, and it probably has a 232GB partition on it and 698GB as unallocated. The 232GB partition either is not in a format that Windows can read or simply doesn't have a drive letter associated with it. Assuming you're done with it, you can restore usage of your 1TB disk (but not the data that was on it - luckily you said it's easily replaced) by removing the 232GB partition on the 1TB (931GB) disk, and then creating a new partition which takes up the whole disk and uses NTFS. To remove it, select the partition and right click then select Delete Volume. Similarly, in the right click context menu you should see Create Partition when you click on the unallocated space.
In Disk Management you should still see the 1TB drive, and it probably has a 232GB partition on it and 698GB as unallocated. The 232GB partition either is not in a format that Windows can read or simply doesn't have a drive letter associated with it. Assuming you're done with it, you can restore usage of your 1TB disk (but not the data that was on it - luckily you said it's easily replaced) by removing the 232GB partition on the 1TB (931GB) disk, and then creating a new partition which takes up the whole disk and uses NTFS. To remove it, select the partition and right click then select Delete Volume. Similarly, in the right click context menu you should see Create Partition when you click on the unallocated space.
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