Drive was not partitioned but now has 3?!
Posted: 31 Jan 2016, 14:19
So this is very strange. I have a 3TB external seagate drive that the USB3 dock thing flaked out and the drive was starting and stopping before finishing it routine.
I swapped cases and the issue was the same thing. Windows sees the drive but wants it formatted. Disk management also sees the drive and claims there are now 2 new partitions, 3 in total. One is RAW the other 2 are just Unallocated.
I ran Testdisk and did the quick search and it came back saying it found an invalid FAT32 partition info, so I did the deep scan and about 6-7 hours later it found all 3 partitions and seems to say two are FAT and one is NTFS.
I've been through all kinda HDD problems from just losing the FAT tables all together to corrupted MBR/MFU's etc, but I've never seen something quite like this.
I guess the real question is should I just delete the partitions and try to rebuild? There is about 2TB of info I need to get back, some is backed up some not so I'd like to get as much back as i can.
I swapped cases and the issue was the same thing. Windows sees the drive but wants it formatted. Disk management also sees the drive and claims there are now 2 new partitions, 3 in total. One is RAW the other 2 are just Unallocated.
I ran Testdisk and did the quick search and it came back saying it found an invalid FAT32 partition info, so I did the deep scan and about 6-7 hours later it found all 3 partitions and seems to say two are FAT and one is NTFS.
I've been through all kinda HDD problems from just losing the FAT tables all together to corrupted MBR/MFU's etc, but I've never seen something quite like this.
I guess the real question is should I just delete the partitions and try to rebuild? There is about 2TB of info I need to get back, some is backed up some not so I'd like to get as much back as i can.