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So with some kind of miracle, when I plugged the disk back into the PC (at its original SATA slot), it was suddenly behaving as normal again.
I took this opportunity to make a byte-by-byte copy using DiskDrill. It did turn up a few bad sectors, but after like 8 passes, it was a pretty small...
No idea on the cause, but it's a pretty old drive, so it's probably just age.
The problem now is that although the drive is detected in the BIOS and the Disk Management, it can't be initialised. I don't know if a bit-by-bit copy will work in this case but I'll try.
I also took the disk out and...
I was trying this with TestDisk and DiskDrill, but neither of these programs can see it any more.
It only shows up under Disk Management as Not Initialized, but the "Initialize Disk" option gives an error that the device doesn't exist
AOMEI Partition Assistant is also able to see it, but...
UPDATE 2: The disk is visible in the BIOS menu. Booting up takes MUCH longer than normal. Once booted up, the disk is not visible from any application or menu.
HELP!
Update: I cancelled TestDisk and ran DiskDrill instead. I hoped it would be faster, but its estimated run time is also like 10 days
While this was going on, I opened Disk Management, and got a popup to initialise the disk, with options of GPT and MBR. I chose GPT and continued, but it said the...
One of my secondary hard disks seems to have gone RAW and can't be accessed properly. Symptoms as follows
Disk shows up in under my PC in Explorer, with the correct name and free space
Trying to access it results in an error saying the drive is not accessible
Trying to run Chkdsk gives the...
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