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Good day, I would like to know if you can help me with the following problem: I use Windows 7 64-bit, I bought a Seagate Desktop 4Tb drive, I connected it to a USB 3.0 docking station and from there I copied the information from all the other drives to "unify" the information and then "reorganize" it.
The problem was when I decided to connect this drive to the PC and from there transfer all the information to the other drives using the docking.
In the Windows file explorer it did not read the drive, so I went to Control Panel/System and Security/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management. There I saw the drive with the operating system and in a gray tone I saw the 4Tb drive, I right-clicked on it and it gave me the option to "Initialize disk," so I just did it, but when that happened it showed the drive in 2 partitions, still in gray tone, even it gave me the option to use the drive as MBR or GPT but I chose to leave it unchanged.
Now I find that also through the docking I see the drive like that and obviously I can not access the data, which is needless to say that there is everything I had (work data, personal, etc.).
Is there any way I can recover the only partition I had with all its respective data? Thank you very much in advance.
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Some questions: in the disk manager, does windows assign a drive letter to partitions or does it appear without it? Does the disk (or partitions) not appear in Computer, or does it appear normally but you can't access it?
If it assigns a drive letter, you can do it manually from the disk manager, by right-clicking on the disk or partition.
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Hello Nemo! Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, in the disk manager, I see it only as one more disk, but without assigning letters to the drive. In the basic partition table, and in 2 partitions not yet activated/formatted.
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So assign it a letter as I indicated in my previous post. Disk Manager and right-click on the partition and choose change drive letter and access. Then in Add, you choose an available letter and assign it to it. From that moment you will be able to see it in the Computer section of Windows Explorer.
Maybe I'm wrong, but you have lost the content anyway. If you want to merge both partitions again, do it from the disk manager.Tapatalk for ZX Spectrum
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Hello Nemo, thank you for your help, but you can't assign letters to a disk that contains unformatted partitions. There are programs like EASEUS Partition Recovery that will recover the partition table of your disk, whatever they are, and be formatted as they are, as long as Windows starts up without problems and your partition, but that's not my case. My partition table is of the GPT type. At the moment I had to acquire a program called R-Studio, made just for forensic analysis. I'll tell you how it goes.
