I did the latest Windows 11 update V22H2 on Monday, shutdown as usual.
Didn't switch on the pc at all yesterday, fired it up today to find two internal 3.5" sata drives have lost all data - both were formatted with NTFS and now displaying as RAW, inaccessible to file explorer, all data 'gone' (both are backup drives for videos, photos, etc so it's not the end of the world). Both show as healthy/online in Disk Management, capacity correctly displayed, no SMART errors detected. I'm not saying the update did something, but the chances of this happening to two drives at the same time must be incredibly small...
I've not dealt with hard drive errors in many years so I'm well out the loop with regards to recovery options.
Is there a quick fix for this, or am I looking forward to two full formats and hours of copying files?
Didn't switch on the pc at all yesterday, fired it up today to find two internal 3.5" sata drives have lost all data - both were formatted with NTFS and now displaying as RAW, inaccessible to file explorer, all data 'gone' (both are backup drives for videos, photos, etc so it's not the end of the world). Both show as healthy/online in Disk Management, capacity correctly displayed, no SMART errors detected. I'm not saying the update did something, but the chances of this happening to two drives at the same time must be incredibly small...
I've not dealt with hard drive errors in many years so I'm well out the loop with regards to recovery options.
Is there a quick fix for this, or am I looking forward to two full formats and hours of copying files?