Drive went blank..?

lawrence281 · 9 Nov 2015 at 16:27

SO I've got an old 640gb western digital hdd, that worked before I unplugged it and moved it to a new case. By working i mean, it had all my files, was titled "gaming", now its titled to the normal name and shows as 931gb..and empty..what the hell..? Also got a new motherboard if that somehow can affect it lol

bledd · 9 Nov 2015 at 16:38

How many drives are in this system?

lawrence281 · 9 Nov 2015 at 16:53

bledd. said:
How many drives are in this system?

ONLY the crucial SSD, but before I had 2 hdd's, but now only this one is plugged in wtf

lawrence281 · 9 Nov 2015 at 20:45

SO i was attempting to install windows on the drive..and during the bootmenu i could see the partition and it was still called gaming and had my files..so why doesnt it show during running before then

ANDARIAL · 9 Nov 2015 at 21:21

I had this same problem a few months ago
I used a data/partition recovery program and managed to recover90% of my 3TB drive
Can`t for the life of me remember what it was called though,might have been easus data recovery
took over 24 hours though and i copied it to another drive just in case

lawrence281 · 9 Nov 2015 at 22:11

ANDARIAL said:
I had this same problem a few months ago
I used a data/partition recovery program and managed to recover90% of my 3TB drive
Can`t for the life of me remember what it was called though,might have been easus data recovery
took over 24 hours though and i copied it to another drive just in case

What's even the cause of this I dont get it, unplugging it and replugging makes it unrecogniseable ? lol

bledd · 10 Nov 2015 at 08:45

Show us a screenshot of Disk Management in Windows. Also a screenshot of Device Manager in the Disk drives section.

Try another SATA cable.
Try another SATA port.

andicole0 · 10 Nov 2015 at 08:55

Is it possible this disk is not a standard format?
Andi.

Vimes · 14 Nov 2015 at 10:27

Something similar happened to me, coincidence that it was also my Games labeled drive.
I have a 500GB SSD forr games and when I booted it up the contents had vanished and it showed as empty.

For me it happened when I booted up Windows 7 and, before the GUI started, I had thankfully seen it scrolling something about the permissions being wrong on the drive and changed them all.
When I came to boot back to Windows 10 the drive showed as empty and under the security tab I noticed that Windows 7 has removed Authorised Users from the list of people able to access it, thus until I added that back it just showed as empty.