Hey all,
I have a 2TB disk that died on me this weekend. It started acting funny and then no longer listed an amount of storage, and I couldn't open it anymore. Drive is five years old so I guess it might have just given out.
I'm hoping to recover some of the data on it regardless. I took it out of my PC in the course of troubleshooting and put it back in. It's set as an internal drive. Now I cannot see it in file explorer, and TestDisk and Recuva cannot see it either. I do see it in Disk Management, as 'Unknown' and 'Not Initialized'.
Is there anything I can do to make it visible without losing data? Or should I just go ahead and initialize, then try to salvage what I can afterwards?
Thanks so much for any help!
I have a 2TB disk that died on me this weekend. It started acting funny and then no longer listed an amount of storage, and I couldn't open it anymore. Drive is five years old so I guess it might have just given out.
I'm hoping to recover some of the data on it regardless. I took it out of my PC in the course of troubleshooting and put it back in. It's set as an internal drive. Now I cannot see it in file explorer, and TestDisk and Recuva cannot see it either. I do see it in Disk Management, as 'Unknown' and 'Not Initialized'.
Is there anything I can do to make it visible without losing data? Or should I just go ahead and initialize, then try to salvage what I can afterwards?
Thanks so much for any help!