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Serjo17 Posts 4 Registration date Wednesday July 12, 2017 Status Member Last seen September 7, 2017 - Sep 1, 2017 at 07:00 PM
Serjo17 Posts 4 Registration date Wednesday July 12, 2017 Status Member Last seen September 7, 2017 - Sep 7, 2017 at 07:36 PM
Hello, i got a problem with my hard drive and i would appreciate if someone can help me!

ill start with the details, last night i was on my pc and when i went to sleep i turned it off with no problems, nothing unusual. next day when i turned the pc on, 1 of my 2 hard drives disappeared. i cheched which one of the two not showing and then i tried to reconnect the hard drive but it didnt help.

i checked the disc management inside the computer management and it shows that 458/465 gb of the hard disc are unallocated.

i have no idea what happened here, if its repairable, and if i can save the data that was on the hard drive.

i would greatly appreciated for some guidance on this issue !! thank you !

ill attach screenshots:

https://img-16.ccm2.net/XLdo_C7YrJkSe11ZgBb5pP5YfI4=/76bdbc5e70234fe39275ab33b468075b/ccm-ugc/unallocated.png


https://img-16.ccm2.net/bVOLhd26evPz8cCJzY0yQ5cW_Vg=/c604958bb05e466cbe9be93c165974c2/ccm-ugc/this_pc.png



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nathanwirth Posts 324 Registration date Thursday May 22, 2014 Status Member Last seen September 27, 2022 29
Sep 7, 2017 at 05:10 AM
Hi, it seems that your drive is turned into RAW format; you need to format it for reusing it again. However, if you have important data stored in that drive then first use Stellar Phoenix Windows data recovery – Home for recovering your lost data then format it.
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Sep 7, 2017 at 06:42 PM
I would go with that suggestion, as it has complete support of its own! Typically it is tough to even find a support link on software such as this! So far so good Nathan! I got side tracked with RAID talk!
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Serjo17 Posts 4 Registration date Wednesday July 12, 2017 Status Member Last seen September 7, 2017
Sep 7, 2017 at 07:36 PM
Thank you so much for the help!
problem solved ! :)
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Sep 1, 2017 at 07:18 PM
OK, the PC boots, so that is good. Run a chkdsk against your drive. Open the CMD prompt with admin creds, and type in:

chkdsk <drive letter> /f /r


This is the safest to start with.
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Serjo17 Posts 4 Registration date Wednesday July 12, 2017 Status Member Last seen September 7, 2017
Sep 2, 2017 at 07:52 AM
thanks for the respond.
i have finished doing so, but nothing changed.

what i should do next?
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RolandJS Posts 21 Registration date Saturday August 26, 2017 Status Member Last seen October 19, 2017 1
Sep 2, 2017 at 06:44 PM
Is this a RAID setup, or, just two internal hard-drives, each with their own drive letter?
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Sep 5, 2017 at 04:57 PM
A raid would be seen as ONE drive Roland!
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RolandJS Posts 21 Registration date Saturday August 26, 2017 Status Member Last seen October 19, 2017 1 > Blocked Profile
Sep 5, 2017 at 10:37 PM
I asked a ballpark question after I saw this earlier:
"...1 of my 2 hard drives disappeared..."
community.spiceworks.com has several RAID threads in which 1 of 2 or 1 of whatever number of drives was bad or was going bad. I guessed wrong here, eh? :)
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Sep 6, 2017 at 04:57 PM
You would never know about it a RAID scenario, unless you were in the Raid configuration manager. That is what RAID does, make duplicate drives for redundancy! The fact that he saw drive space go down, means it is not a RAID. In a RAID config, the drive would fail, and he would still have 500GB or whatever!
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