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Hard Disk asks to initialize, shows no partitions and "Bad Disk" in PW
Hello,
This is my first post on this forum. I've used it many times before, reading about subjects I needed to know at that time, since it has very useful information! So thanks for this forum and everybody who contributes!
My hard disk stopped showing up in windows explorer. It does show up in BIOS and disk management as Seagate Backup Plus. In disk management it tells me to initialize the disk.
This happened after I was copying a lot of files from my hard disk to another 2 TB Seagate hard disk. Mine is 4TB. It got stuck, hanged while busy. I kind of forgot what I did exactly afterwards, any of the following, maybe a combination:
1. I terminated the process in task manager
2. I unplugged the device(s)
3. I restarted the laptop
4. (If the whole laptop was hanging, don’t really remember if that was the case) I turned it off by holding the power button.
After that the above situation happened.
Before I did any of the above things, when the process was still hanging, I could hear my HDD making some strange noises. It was not very loud, but some repeated strange soft noises. This worried me a little. I hope the hardware is not damaged, but I suppose that would still be good, since it does show up.
My HDD is also very full, and I mean very, very full. I have 4 partitions. Some partition are like full with only a few MB’s left. The one I was copying from had a few GB’s left.
Ok, so then I spend hours reading about this to try to find a solution. There were quite some things, but also a lot of things contradictory or not fully satisfactory to my opinion. I also read some threads and posts on this forum, mainly from Jumanji, which all had good info. So thanks again for this!
Since there was no definite satisfactory solution in my opinion I did not want to try things out in case I would mess it up even worse. So that’s why the thread.
From what I’ve read I think the partition table is damaged. I’ve downloaded MiniTool Partition Wizard Free v10.2. I wanted to try the “Partition Recover”, but then I read on their website that if you had a GPT disk and it now shows as MBR, which is my case, you should first change it to GPT. But my disk is not showing anything, it just says “Bad Disk”. Right mouse click is not possible and on the left side nothing is showing up, so I’m not able to change it to GPT. So I also didn’t try to Recover Partition, because I thought I might mess it up.
By the way, Disk Management says at “Partition Syle: Not applicable”
I also read Jumanji say in some posts that if PW says Bad Disk it usually is not retrievable. But then why is it showing up? Well I hope it’s not so bad.
Sorry for the longwinded question (without even a real question posted :P). But I always tend to write extensively to make the other really understand what I mean.
So the question: Can somebody help me with this? What should I do?
I am currently travelling, so I might respond a little late. Actually I usually respond a little late even when not travelling :P
I appreciate are your help, time and effort. Thanks a lot in advance!