Any way to save the data on this drive?

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Hi,

Recently bought a NAS and im transferring all my data onto it. All was going great till I dropped in my last 2tb drive into my external SATA caddy to transfer it and no drive showed up.

When I go into Disk Management the drive is there, and all the data is clearly sat on the 1858.51 partition. Now looking at the top section the drive has no letter or volume.



Now normally you can just right click and I could change drive etc. When I right click all I get is 'Delete Volume' which I really don't want to do as it has a 3rd of my DVD/Blu Ray collection on it.



I know I could delete it, resize it then assign letter, but then my data is gone. Any ideas on how I can save it?
 
Where it says Disk 3 try right clicking on that and marking the partion/drive as active since all the others show as active but the one in question doesn't.

Other than that no idea :(

Stoner81.
 
Its picking up the disk and can see the partitions.. thats frankly good news in the world of failing hard drives.

You've a couple choices..

Probably start with a CHKDSK (give it a google if you're unsure).

Then you're onto either partition tools to try as above, marking as active and giving drive letters etc outside the confinds of Windows.

Or, and possibly before you start the partition tools, you go straight to recovering the data. This will be easy enough with the drive in its current state.. might be harder if playing around with the partition goes wrong.

Theres 101 tools under the sun that people can list. Give Hirens a google and download the latest 15.2 I think.. It has every tool your'll need on there, also works as a boot disk.
 
Thanks for the advice so far, from what I can read on CHKDSK it needs a drive letter to scan the drive, and it doesnt have one.

Heard of Hirens before, but not for years. Lots of powerful and scary looking stuff on there. Had a look at a possible couple of programs on it, but I couldnt find one that would allow me to scan the drive and look for files, then copy said files to another drive.

Found a program called R-Studio network edition that seems like it will do just that. Its currently scanning the drive looking for all known file types. Ive got everything crossed it works

 
Was this previously in another NAS? -what model?

This rings alarm bells with me as a drive previously in a NAS, which used a filesystem that Windows can't read.

Don't make any changes in recovery tools. Either put it back into the NAS, or boot into Linux Mint or similar to view the data.

Or was it part of a RAID or something?


Just restore the data from your backu............
 
bledd. said:
Was this previously in another NAS? -what model?

This rings alarm bells with me as a drive previously in a NAS, which used a filesystem that Windows can't read.

Don't make any changes in recovery tools. Either put it back into the NAS, or boot into Linux Mint or similar to view the data.

Or was it part of a RAID or something?


Just restore the data from your backu............
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It was originally in a external 4 bay hard drive caddy, the caddy when plugged in just used to show each drive individually. I then purchased a Synology DS413j a week or 2 ago, I did stick the drive in there but just left as it was. I guess the NAS must have done something to it, hence the extra partitions etc.

Moving data from my old drives to the NAS drives wasnt a problem with my other 3 drives as there was always a free drive bay in the DS413j, so id pop in a drive and move the files through the Synology UI. The DS413j is now full of drives, which is why I have gad to plug it into my PC via a SATA caddy to move the files. I cant pop it into the DS413j again as its full of drives in SHR raid, with around 6TB of data, really dont want to risk losing all that.
 
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