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 ...
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- 15 Oct 2017, 22:58
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Unable to get windows to recognize disk correctly
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- 10 Oct 2017, 13:37
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Windows unable to find my files
- Replies: 4
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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
Cannot open volume for direct access
testdisk method is working fine! Big thanks!
Well earned donation

- 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.

- 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 ...