Recovering from doorstopped external drive :-(
Posted: 05 Aug 2016, 18:36
Hi, be as brief as I can
I upgraded to Win 10 over the top of Win 7. Experienced a couple of BSOD. Research suggested numerous potential issues and Event Viewer suggested all manner of problems with drivers not loading etc.
Decide to upgrade the firmware of a 1TB WD MyBook Essentials external drive. Upgrade failed. Since then, no access to the drive.
Windows' This PC does not show the drive, although it knows it is being connected via USB (the sound). It is seen in device manager and correctly identified. Disk Management, however, shows it as Disk 1 Basic 931.5GB unallocted.
When the drive is connected via the electronics of the enclosure, it is not recognized by anything at all, only when connecting the drive either via USB or directly to the motherboard via sata cable.
I tried running TestDisk, but it found and could do nothing.
So now I'm awaiting the results of PhotoRec.
So far it is on it's third run of Pass 1 and has only found 8 files.
I know there are (or were) thousands of photos of my grandchildren :-/
Currently it has been searching for 23 hours and 16 minutes with 52 hours or so left.
This is after two count downs which automatically started the next countdown.
Hope I've explained that correctly
Question: Am I flogging a dead horse?
Or do I just let it go for as long as it wants ?
Thank you
I upgraded to Win 10 over the top of Win 7. Experienced a couple of BSOD. Research suggested numerous potential issues and Event Viewer suggested all manner of problems with drivers not loading etc.
Decide to upgrade the firmware of a 1TB WD MyBook Essentials external drive. Upgrade failed. Since then, no access to the drive.
Windows' This PC does not show the drive, although it knows it is being connected via USB (the sound). It is seen in device manager and correctly identified. Disk Management, however, shows it as Disk 1 Basic 931.5GB unallocted.
When the drive is connected via the electronics of the enclosure, it is not recognized by anything at all, only when connecting the drive either via USB or directly to the motherboard via sata cable.
I tried running TestDisk, but it found and could do nothing.
So now I'm awaiting the results of PhotoRec.
So far it is on it's third run of Pass 1 and has only found 8 files.
I know there are (or were) thousands of photos of my grandchildren :-/
Currently it has been searching for 23 hours and 16 minutes with 52 hours or so left.
This is after two count downs which automatically started the next countdown.
Hope I've explained that correctly
Question: Am I flogging a dead horse?
Or do I just let it go for as long as it wants ?
Thank you