F: Drive Has Become Un Accessible?

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Yesterday I've been dealing with my bios changing the boot order on its own. I have one 1TB Toshiba, a 1TB WD, a 2TB Seagate, and a 500GB ADATA ssd. All except the Seagate have windows installed from past usage, but the ADATA has been my boot drive without issue for about a year.

I rebooted yesterday after having an issue with the BIOS trying to boot from a different drive, and then I found the F drive, the WD drive, to be in accessible with access denied. It still shows in My Computer, but it only says the drive name and NTFS. Disk Manager recognizes it as a healthy disk and can still see its capacity wave usage. Chkdsk says it's fine. System File Checker find corrupted files, but couldn't fix some. When I tried to access the properties of the drive in Disk Manager, it would say the recycling bin of the drive was corrupted, but when I had it try to delete it, it couldn't find the file location. So I used cmd to delete the F drive's recycle bin and at least that error doesn't come up anymore, but the drive is still under accessible.

Any help at all? Thanks in advance.
 
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Yes, you can boot from a properly constructed DVD just like you can from a properly constructed USB stick.
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https://imgur.com/a/Km29b

I have File History for the drive, but it's definitely not everything, I should have used a more robust automatic backup tool.

I have no idea what it exactly is or how to fix it though. As far as it shows, the drive and partition is healthy, so I'm not sure how to proceed to recover all the data.
 
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The 'backup' procedures built into Windows are decidedly subpar, compared to the 3rd party tools.
System Image, or File History....pale in comparison to other things.

Everyone goes through a major data loss once.
Smart people don't let it happen a second time.

And given your problems leading up to this situation....backup, backup, backup.


Possibly try to boot from a Linux USB, and see what, if anything, it can see on that drive.
 
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Here's the BIOS settings as of now, all I did was disable booting options other than the ADATA ssd. (same images from last thread)

https://imgur.com/a/CeZCS

I have new sata cables, I'll replace the WD one with a new cable, on the off chance that's the cause.

Would replacing the cmos battery be of any use towards this?

Also, do you think it's an issue with windows accessing it or the drive itself malfunctioning? The thing I don't understand is why, even after giving administrators full control of the drive, I still can't access it.
Part of me wants to try booting from the F drive since it still has windows on it, just to see what happens, like if it will actually boot that could show that the drive is still functioning. But I'm not sure if that could damage it more hardware or software side.

I know it's several questions here, but thoughts on these?
 
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Would this be a correct way to try and repair the drive? That's if I can't find the drive just by using a file explorer, I assume. I would use nautilus for this right? Sorry, never really worked with Linux.
I just don't have another drive to copy all of the drive to, so I feel like I should try to repair it first. Is that sensible to do?
 
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No, the only sensible thing to do is to safeguard your data first.
Unless you don't care about it.

Fixing the drive and its partitioning is secondary.
 
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That's true. Should I expect all of F's data to be copied over to another drive or partition if I use something like Safecopy on Ubuntu?

If I make a 1tb partition with my 2tb drive, can I copy F to that partition for now and then set the drive back to one partition without losing data from the first partition after I copy the data to a new drive?
 
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If you run a live Linux distribution like Ubuntu or Mint, hopefully you should be able to view everything on F Drive just as you did before in Windows. Then you just copy all the files to another drive. If it works, it's very simple.

Does your computer have a DVD drive? If so you can put the Linux OS on a DVD and run it from your DVD drive. You don't need to install it.
 
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Drives, partitions, back and forth, back and forth....the more you mess with partitions, the more likely you are to lose everything.
You need a know empty drive to copy your data to.
 
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Okay, I'll be getting a new hdd in about a day to copy over the F drive data.

Does your computer have a DVD drive? If so you can put the Linux OS on a DVD and run it from your DVD drive. You don't need to install it.
Click to expand...

I do have a DVD drive actually. Would it be the same as having it on a USB flash drive to boot from? If need be, I'd like to be able to have persistent storage in case I need to use some tools for recovery.
 
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Yes, you can boot from a properly constructed DVD just like you can from a properly constructed USB stick.
 
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I only suggested a DVD disk over a USB stick because when i did this in the past, creating a DVD was much simpler than creating a bootable USB drive. All i had to do was download the DVD iso file and burn it onto a DVD, that was it. At least at that time, creating a bootable USB drive was more complicated.
 
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Bootable USB, via Rufus, is trivial these days.
Click click done.
 
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