Drive suddenly shows not initialized and not allocated


  1. lucasbuck
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    Drive suddenly shows not initialized and not allocated


    I shouldn't say suddenly. It's a 2TB drive I had in an enclosure that took a bump off a short table the other day. It seemed fine when I tested it and pulled up all the folders. But when I went to move a file off of it, the drive disappeared. It shows up in drive manager as not initialized and not allocated. Working with a friend I tried Minitools Partition Wizard, Power Data Recovery, and Easy Recovery. None of them found anything, no partition and no files. I just wanted to check if there were any other suggestions before I gave it up. Seemed weird the folders and files showed up after the drop, then trying to actually access them made it trash itself. I figure it would be gone from the start. Thanks for any tips (if there are any).
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  3. Ranger4
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    It looks like the drive is probably wrecked. It only takes a small knock to irreparably damage the heads particularly if the drive is actually powered & working at the time.
    Some firms specialise in data recovery, but I have heard it is very expensive & would only be worth looking into, if the data on the drive was absolutely essential.
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  4. lucasbuck
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    Thanks. It actually wasn't powered when it bumped. I was hoping it would be okay. I just wanted to make sure there isn't anything else to try before throwing it away. There's some stuff I'd like to have off it, but am not going to send away and pay for.
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