Two weeks ago my primary hdd, a Samsung 850 Pro 1TB died, but I wasn't very worried being the drive in warranty and having a second hard drive (a WD 2 TB) where I store photos, documents, saves and other important files.
I proceeded to reinstall the OS on the new drive and something weird is going on; on the second drive many files just disappear, like it was restored a older version of the content. Basically latest files are time stamped june 2015.
I tried different recovery programs with both light and deep scan (Data Rescue 3, Ease Recovery, Getback, ecc.) but none of those programs can find any trace of the files I am looking for and I am going crazy to understand what is going on.
The only difference is that I am using a different SATA port on the MB than before.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
AC
Did you disconnect your 2TB drive before reinstalling Windows?
No I didn't
When reinstalling an OS on a new drive it's always recommended all drives be disconnected except the drive you are installing to.
However, if you made sure you installed to Disk 0 "which should have been the 850 PRO" Windows probably created the necessary partitions for proper install.
Recovery
System
MSR Reserved
Primary Partition 1
So in your install program you probably seen Disk 0 as unallocated space, and Disk 1 as the 2 TB drive. If you didn't do anything with Disk 1 "2TB" Then it should have been OK.
I'll keep in mind for sure for the next time...When reinstalling an OS on a new drive it's always recommended all drives be disconnected except the drive you are installing to.
However, if you made sure you installed to Disk 0 "which should have been the 850 PRO" Windows probably created the necessary partitions for proper install.
Recovery
System
MSR Reserved
Primary Partition 1
So in your install program you probably seen Disk 0 as unallocated space, and Disk 1 as the 2 TB drive. If you didn't do anything with Disk 1 "2TB" Then it should have been OK.
I was suspecting also some problem about partitions... Indeed the drives before the damage were:
disk0 = Samsung SSD with the 4 partitions
disk1= WD 2TB with datas
after installing the new drive I switched the SATA port and the two diskid switched with having 0 for datas and 1 for system. Also, when I reinstalled, the drive D was without letter, so i had to assing it through admin panel, but since the disk structure was identical I didn't check the content until I had to.
Said so, even if it is a problem of disk table, how it is possible that a surface scan cannot recover any file?
There is a way to recover it? Does connect the disk as an external drive on another PC would help?
Thanks
You could try it.
