Disk Management saying "Disk not initialized"
Posted: 23 Feb 2016, 13:18
Hello everybody here. My issue is as follows:
My laptop has 2 drives: a 120Gb SSD with Windows 7-64 on it and a 1Tb HDD with all data.
Windows Disk Management shows 1Tb HDD as unallocated and suggests initializing. I haven't performed this operation yet because I'm highly afraid this might affect data integrity and hinder the recovery somehow.
Using DMDE software wasn't successful - the scanning wouldn't start at all. Same thing with some other recovery tools.
Then I tried Testdisk. Below is what I get after hitting "Analyse" button:
http://i.imgur.com/zAHOsEU.png
Anyway, if I proceed and press "Quick Search", scanning takes about 10 hours and finally shows me this:
http://i.imgur.com/wj2uxL7.png
I have read instructions and this is not how it is supposed to look like, as I know. I don't like these Partition: Read Error, The harddisk seems too small and The following partition can't be recovered messages and I don't know what to do from here since I'm quite a newb with all this stuff, though I'm trying to be careful.
Is it possible that my drive is protected/locked somehow? I appreciate any help with this, this data is quite important for me and formatting the drive is not an option.
My laptop has 2 drives: a 120Gb SSD with Windows 7-64 on it and a 1Tb HDD with all data.
Windows Disk Management shows 1Tb HDD as unallocated and suggests initializing. I haven't performed this operation yet because I'm highly afraid this might affect data integrity and hinder the recovery somehow.
Using DMDE software wasn't successful - the scanning wouldn't start at all. Same thing with some other recovery tools.
Then I tried Testdisk. Below is what I get after hitting "Analyse" button:
http://i.imgur.com/zAHOsEU.png
Anyway, if I proceed and press "Quick Search", scanning takes about 10 hours and finally shows me this:
http://i.imgur.com/wj2uxL7.png
I have read instructions and this is not how it is supposed to look like, as I know. I don't like these Partition: Read Error, The harddisk seems too small and The following partition can't be recovered messages and I don't know what to do from here since I'm quite a newb with all this stuff, though I'm trying to be careful.
Is it possible that my drive is protected/locked somehow? I appreciate any help with this, this data is quite important for me and formatting the drive is not an option.