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Drive became Unallocated and not having much luck recoverying
Hi,
I've followed other threads on this but can't get to my exact problem so far so hopefully some of you may have some ideas.
The drive is a 1TB WD in an external usb box (currently it's connected internally as I try to recover).
It became unallocated automatically I didn't do anything other than turn the box on yesterday to find the drive missing.
I Have so far done the following:
1) Run Partition Wizard quick scan - no partition found
2) Run Easyus quick scan - no partition found
3) Testdisk deepscan - currently 70% through but nothing is indicated yet
In between the first failures I ran Testdisk file recovery. This found about 9000 files and named them with non-original filenames and no folder structure so it's going to be nightmare to sort out.
So I'm back to trying to recover the partition - I can't understand why it can't find any partition information but can find the data.
It's a bit worrying that the disk became unallocated, I don't think this has ever happened to me in all the time I've had a pc which is a very long time.
Does anyone have an idea what I can try assuming this current deepscan is going to fail - I presume it is since I expect a partition should at least be found early in the scan if it's going to appear at all.
If the worst comes to the worst I can recover some important files and figure out what their filenames should be but as there is a lot of stuff which has more complex folder structures I would have to ignore these as it's just not practical to even try. Best solution would be to get that partition back and then hopefully try to find out if the drive is problematic - that seems to be ok healthwise from my initial tests.
Maybe there are some steps you guys would do that I am not familiar with, anything would help at this stage before I give up and format.