Hi guys,
I have this 3Tb WD MyBook (WD Green HDD inside) which I have been using as an external drive that I store all the backup in it. I have built up my own desktop yesterday and decided to take out the drive and use it as a internal HDD so that I don't have to plug in and out.
However, during the installation process for windows, it was shown that my entire disk become an unallocated space, when I finished setting up Windows I immediated went to Disk manager and check (I really care about the data in it) and the diskmgr asked me to to assign the disk MBR or GPT to be able to access it. I assigned it MBR and hope the data comes back but no, all my data is lost.
I am not very familiar with data recovery so I am not sure what to do now and what has caused the problem, the drive was working fine before I taken it out from the enclosure.
What I am doing now is that I have not touched or try to write anything on this drive and downloaded a DiskGenius trying to recovering my partitions.
So my questions are:
1. Am I doing the correct thing?
2. Is it the partition's fault?
3. Should I assign a new volume and recover the files instead the partitions?
4. I have a blank 2TB HDD right now, can I use ghost or sth to duplicate the failed drive into the 2TB HDD to recover everything?
Many thanks guys, really really appreciate your help.
I have this 3Tb WD MyBook (WD Green HDD inside) which I have been using as an external drive that I store all the backup in it. I have built up my own desktop yesterday and decided to take out the drive and use it as a internal HDD so that I don't have to plug in and out.
However, during the installation process for windows, it was shown that my entire disk become an unallocated space, when I finished setting up Windows I immediated went to Disk manager and check (I really care about the data in it) and the diskmgr asked me to to assign the disk MBR or GPT to be able to access it. I assigned it MBR and hope the data comes back but no, all my data is lost.
I am not very familiar with data recovery so I am not sure what to do now and what has caused the problem, the drive was working fine before I taken it out from the enclosure.
What I am doing now is that I have not touched or try to write anything on this drive and downloaded a DiskGenius trying to recovering my partitions.
So my questions are:
1. Am I doing the correct thing?
2. Is it the partition's fault?
3. Should I assign a new volume and recover the files instead the partitions?
4. I have a blank 2TB HDD right now, can I use ghost or sth to duplicate the failed drive into the 2TB HDD to recover everything?
Many thanks guys, really really appreciate your help.