HDD suddenly not initialized, please help with partition recovery
Posted: 01 Mar 2024, 14:45
Hello,
I've got 2 hard drives built into this computer. The first one (C:) is for OS (Win 10) and programs and is working well, however, the second drive (1 TB) disappeared from "my computer" yesterday. It used to have 3 partitions (D, E, F) and contains documents. In Windows drive manager, it is shown as "Drive 0, unknown, not initialized".
I checked that uninitialized disk with Testdisk, which prompted an error at first - something along the line of "signature aa55 not found" (sorry, I forgot to note down the exact error code).
I chose Intel partition structure, quick search, and the result is this:
I browsed the file strucutre and all documents and data seem to be where they should be.
What would be the next step now? How should I set the partition characteristics? (This is a secondary drive with no OS/boot tasks)
This is my first post and I have to apologize but I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to post the log file as attachment.
Thanks for your help & patience!
I've got 2 hard drives built into this computer. The first one (C:) is for OS (Win 10) and programs and is working well, however, the second drive (1 TB) disappeared from "my computer" yesterday. It used to have 3 partitions (D, E, F) and contains documents. In Windows drive manager, it is shown as "Drive 0, unknown, not initialized".
I checked that uninitialized disk with Testdisk, which prompted an error at first - something along the line of "signature aa55 not found" (sorry, I forgot to note down the exact error code).
I chose Intel partition structure, quick search, and the result is this:
I browsed the file strucutre and all documents and data seem to be where they should be.
What would be the next step now? How should I set the partition characteristics? (This is a secondary drive with no OS/boot tasks)
This is my first post and I have to apologize but I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to post the log file as attachment.
Thanks for your help & patience!