HARD Drive Unformatted itself????

immy · 8 Mar 2006 at 00:43

Anyone have any advice on how to recover data from this situation

I have 3 HDD's in my system, at the weekend, the D

spare storage) drive suddenly died or more to the point has unformatted itself. Now in windows explorer when i goto access it, it asks me to format it as its unformatted. The drive is quite new, its a Western Digital. Ive used their utitilities and their software says the drive is in good health. So what could have happened?
At the time of the incident, i was copying large files from the C drive over to the D drive.

I cant do chkdsk on the D drive it as windows think the device is in RAW state.
Any other ideas or is the data lost for good?

Admiral Huddy · 8 Mar 2006 at 11:38

What OS you using.. Can you view the drive using command prompt?

AFK_Matrix · 8 Mar 2006 at 15:43

What does it say in the disk management under control panel> administrative tools >computer management?

Rambaud · 9 Mar 2006 at 08:29

This has happened to me a few times recently. It changed the drive letter also.

In my case, Explorer was lying.

I changed the drive letter back to my original choice, booted into another OS (I have multiple OSs) and the Drive was seen correctly. Likewise when I re-booted into the first OS.

If you do a format, you will lose the contents of the Drive.