I'm using win7 pro x64
I've three disk, my system is installed on a 128gb kingston SSD, there's also two 3TB HDDs
In a nutshell, two of my 3TB harddrive have completely disappeared after using testdisk, undetectable from disk management, device manager, or even the BIOS. It was running the quickscan, and I wasn't use about the steps after that, so I closed the program to look online, and when I went back to try and scan again, the disk is no longer displayed...
It also disappeared from disk management...
anyway, here's the run down of what happened before (skip if you already know the problem from just that, this is what I did before I tried testdisk.
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I've two 3TB HDD in my computer that's been recently mirrored using the windows disk management.
The one disk I have is about 75% full, and the other one was an older disk that's been .. well long story, in any case, it's been reformated.
I recently mirrored the disk (not even a week) to backup the data, since I've started to hear crunching noise from the computer indicating the declining health of the HDD.
Anyway, after having done so I noticed the in the disk management that it was resynching, and it was taking a long time, so I closed it and used my computer as I usually would, but then my games were running slowly, so I opened it up again and left it to run for a few hours. It ran and the progress got stuck at 24%, so I left my computer on for an another whole 24 hrs to see.
When I came back it was showing the resyching status to be 24% still, thinking it got stuck, I closed the program and restarted my computer. After that, I opened up the disk management again, and it was showing the disks were working okay. Yes, great.
But games were still running super slow...
So after trying to tolerate it for a few days, I opened up the Disk Managment again to check, lo and behold it was trying to resynch again. I quickly tried to unmirror the disk, but I won't stop since it was in the progress of synching.
So ... I deleted the mirror disk (disk2)... and suddenly both of my disks were gone back to unallocated....
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After a quick search around the net, I found testdisk, and ran the program as prescribed by the step by step.
I stopped short of "write" since I wasn't sure at the time if it was the right option, so I left the program to check online again. But when I went back the disk was gone. just gone. Even after restarting my computer it was not registering in the BIOS.
Oh, quick note, after restarting, the computer got stuck on the BIOS information, it was trying to detect something from SATA2 (I presume where the disappeared HDD is connected to) for a long time before moving on, a couple minutes at least.
So one of my disk is gone for now, I started to test disk again to see what I can save from my, I presume, not-fully-synchronized other 3TB harddrive. And I followed through with the "write" step, but it said it was unable to, undetered, I tried to scan again, and it went into a different kind of scanning ..
Underneath Analyse cylinder, there's also a line that looks like this:
"Read error at 2949/254/63 <lba = 479605489>"
And already, the disk is no longer shown in the disk management, even as it is scanning
Actually, now that i remember, this happened to my other disk already, before it completely disappeared from testdisk too.
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I am not going to lose both my drives, but it is taking a very very long time.
I will wait online for some response. Please Please help me out
