A little while back I bought a WD Red 3TB for primary storage of my films and photos.
Earlier this evening I was copying over a load more from my older Samsung F4, went to click on the Films folder of the Red in Windows Explorer and up popped an error box, basically raising it's middle finger and politely telling me that the drive is inaccessible. The only file listed was the very last film to be copied over. The drive disappeared from Windows Explorer, and Disk Management is telling me the drive needs to be initialised. Great.
I've had no luck with GPartEd (it can see the drive but is showing unallocated space), and a scan with Kroll Ontrack has only recovered around 40% of the films I just copied over, none of the ones that were on there to start with.
I'm guessing that initialising the disk will wipe it, but is there anything else I can try first to save myself from having to rip them all again?
UPDATE:
Well, it appears I didn't do my research properly before purchasing.
After checking numerous websites and posts on other forums it's become apparent that a drive over 2.2TB will not function correctly on a motherboard as old as mine, irrespective of how it is partitioned. I've been using an external USB 3TB backup drive without any issues, so the limitation never even entered my mind!
Earlier this evening I was copying over a load more from my older Samsung F4, went to click on the Films folder of the Red in Windows Explorer and up popped an error box, basically raising it's middle finger and politely telling me that the drive is inaccessible. The only file listed was the very last film to be copied over. The drive disappeared from Windows Explorer, and Disk Management is telling me the drive needs to be initialised. Great.
I've had no luck with GPartEd (it can see the drive but is showing unallocated space), and a scan with Kroll Ontrack has only recovered around 40% of the films I just copied over, none of the ones that were on there to start with.
I'm guessing that initialising the disk will wipe it, but is there anything else I can try first to save myself from having to rip them all again?
UPDATE:
Well, it appears I didn't do my research properly before purchasing.
After checking numerous websites and posts on other forums it's become apparent that a drive over 2.2TB will not function correctly on a motherboard as old as mine, irrespective of how it is partitioned. I've been using an external USB 3TB backup drive without any issues, so the limitation never even entered my mind!
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