Hard Drive has suddenly has no space, and can't be used/identified.

Feb 18, 2018
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Hey, so a couple weeks ago, I was getting my controller to play a game, but the cord was stuck under the tower. I lifted it, and the power cord in the back came undone, turning off my pc. I turned it back on, and my Steam files in my Internal D drive were corrupt.

I couldn't delete them or recover them, so I decided to run a chkdsk. Since this was my first time doing a chkdsk, I didn't realize it would stall on a certain "stage", so I restarted my PC and just skipped the chkdsk. Now my D drive doesn't even show how much space is left, when there should be around 900GB, more or less.

Troubleshooting couldn't identify the issue, but when I brought up disk management, I found the Drive, with the bar being blue and not black. It says the drive is healthy (Primary Partition). Whenever I try to do anything with the D drive such as changing "D" to another letter, virtual disk manager is brought up and says "the object invoked had disconnected from it's clients". Also, when trying to check for errors, "the disk check could not be performed because the disk is not formatted." I don't have any data backed up on it, but all I have on there is a music player and video games, so they can easily be reinstalled.

Do I erase volume and create a new one? Will that work? What are my options here?

below is a link to a picture that shows my drive with no visible space, and it showing 930GB of space in Disk Management.

https://imgur.com/ccJ6abo
 
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Yeah, it is a RAW drive -- its NTFS format has been corrupted. Easiest just to reinitialize, reformat and reload the data.

One quick way to fix it is to open an elevated command prompt, right click run as admin, the type in these commands
diskpart
list disk
select disk n (where n is the 1TB disk -- select carefully!)
clean
exit

Then open disk management and use the initialization wizard (MBR) by clicking on the drive and format as NTFS. Then reload the data on the drive.

If there was really important data on the drive that was not available elsewhere, there are some things to try that may work but will take more time and you may end up just erasing it in the end anyway.

RealBeast

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Yeah, it is a RAW drive -- its NTFS format has been corrupted. Easiest just to reinitialize, reformat and reload the data.

One quick way to fix it is to open an elevated command prompt, right click run as admin, the type in these commands
diskpart
list disk
select disk n (where n is the 1TB disk -- select carefully!)
clean
exit

Then open disk management and use the initialization wizard (MBR) by clicking on the drive and format as NTFS. Then reload the data on the drive.

If there was really important data on the drive that was not available elsewhere, there are some things to try that may work but will take more time and you may end up just erasing it in the end anyway.
 
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RealBeast

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You are not getting a disk list -- try waiting a few moments, as you do not select by letter but from the list that should look similar to:
list-disk.jpg