I don't get what happened here. One of my old 120GB IDE drives, a Hitachi Deskstar has worked flawlessly for years connected to IDE inside my case. I removed it from my case recently and installed it in a new Icybox SATA/IDE enclosure today and connected via USB. I decided to check all my drives health in crystal disk and it showed a caution for the Deskstar with 'Reallocated sectors count 1'. I double clicked the drive and saw my folders in it but it wouldn't let me open most of them and saying data is corrupted. There was about 80GB of stuff mostly in the old program files folder which I can't access, and hovering over the folder it says it's empty. In my computer it used to say total size 115GB, free size 34.9GB.
It didn't show in safely remove hardware either. I rebooted the PC, and then a message in taskbar saying installing new device software, successful (for the deskstar). But this time nothing showing in my computer. And then in disk manager it wants me to initialize the disk! I didn't initialize it, I cancelled out. And, it says unallocated 99.4 GB. Firstly, I don't know what caused it to make out it's a new drive that needs initializing and secondly, why it's saying 99.4GB instead of 115GB. I assume it's been wiped? I have no idea what was on the drive and if there was anything in particular I needed, but is there a way to retrieve or at least see what was on there, like maybe that program Recuva? Would it make any difference connecting it via IDE on my motherboard to see if anything changes or have I lost the data?
It didn't show in safely remove hardware either. I rebooted the PC, and then a message in taskbar saying installing new device software, successful (for the deskstar). But this time nothing showing in my computer. And then in disk manager it wants me to initialize the disk! I didn't initialize it, I cancelled out. And, it says unallocated 99.4 GB. Firstly, I don't know what caused it to make out it's a new drive that needs initializing and secondly, why it's saying 99.4GB instead of 115GB. I assume it's been wiped? I have no idea what was on the drive and if there was anything in particular I needed, but is there a way to retrieve or at least see what was on there, like maybe that program Recuva? Would it make any difference connecting it via IDE on my motherboard to see if anything changes or have I lost the data?
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