WD Elements no data

Driver170 · 15 Feb 2016

I backed up my entire PC before my windows 7 reinstall. After doing my reinstall my WD hard drive has no data what so ever. Its blank!

Why is this?

Layback Bear · 15 Feb 2016

Please complete this tutorial by Golden so we can have a look what you have.

Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image

Driver170 · 15 Feb 2016

here we go

Driver170 · 15 Feb 2016

disk 2 j

Ranger4 · 16 Feb 2016

What program did you use to back up your system before you did the reinstall?.

Did you disconnect all the hard drives other than the one you wanted to reinstall Windows to before you did the reinstall of Windows?.

Driver170 · 16 Feb 2016

I used acronis. I'm positive i unplugged my HD then reinstalled windows.

mjf · 16 Feb 2016

If there was data on this HDD (2,j) then it looks like it's been reformatted. You could try MiniTool Partition Wizards "Partition Recovery Tool" and see if it finds anything to recover.
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Make sure you are working on the right drive.

Driver170 · 16 Feb 2016

Ok i will give it a try. Whats the chances?

mjf · 17 Feb 2016

Driver170 said:

Ok i will give it a try. Whats the chances?

Who knows. Your drive is showing zero data at the moment. In these circumstances you have to make the decision.

Driver170 · 17 Feb 2016

Well it finished after 8 hours but nothing came back, it didn't even give you a message saying unable to retrieve data just a window saying click finish.