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by fishlake
15 Oct 2017, 22:58
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Unable to get windows to recognize disk correctly
Replies: 0
Views: 1324

Unable to get windows to recognize disk correctly

In a previous post I asked for help to recover files that windows could no longer find on a new 10TB disk.

The disk showed up in Disk Management but not in Windows Explorer. Now that I've copied all my files using TestDisk I wanted to format the disk, but that's not an option in Disk Management for ...
by fishlake
10 Oct 2017, 13:37
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Windows unable to find my files
Replies: 4
Views: 3888

Re: Windows unable to find my files

chkdsk /f g:

Cannot open volume for direct access

testdisk method is working fine! Big thanks!

Well earned donation :)
by fishlake
09 Oct 2017, 22:31
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Windows unable to find my files
Replies: 4
Views: 3888

Re: Windows unable to find my files

Windows no longer displays the drive under Devices and drives. It's only listed as G:\ under "Quick access" with a question mark over a small icon, but I'm not able to do anything to open it from windows.Image
by fishlake
08 Oct 2017, 09:33
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Windows unable to find my files
Replies: 4
Views: 3888

Windows unable to find my files

Similar to the problem of the previous poster. I bought a new internal 10TB disk to replace a 6TB that was full. After formatting the new drive I copied the files to the new drive and the root folder was listed as one would expect. A couple of days after formatting the stuff on the (old) 6TB drive i ...