Windows 10: Drive dissappeared - all data lost?

Hi all,

I’d like to ask for your help.

I was moving about 1.5 TB of data from an external drive to an internal drive (secondary, non-system hard drive), left the PC for a few hours and when I came back the moving process was paused at 0 kB/s speed and the internal drive, I was moving the files to, suddenly dissappeared. I restarted the PC a few times hoping it would come back ok but with no avail. In Disk Management the secondary drive shows as Unknown and Not Initialized and the data on it shows as unallocated. Does this mean all the moved files are irreversibly lost?

Thank you.

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ALL FILES AND DATA DISSAPPEARED

I had a problem with my mouse pad. The mouse wasn't showing up when I tried to click or move something. So, I shut down the computer by pressing the shutdown button normally and I pressed it again for it to start. Then it was on the lock screen and unusually
it said preparing windows. Then I waited for it to be prepared and I typed my laptop password it came on and when I see everything disappeared. My songs, Photos, Downloads, Resources, Laptop background etc. How do I recover everything

PS: I have windows 10

 

ALL FILES AND DATA DISSAPPEARED

Hi Hassan,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

This might have occurred due to some corruptions in User profile.

I would suggest you to create a new user account and check if the issue persists.

Refer to the Link given below.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-user-account#create-user-account=windows-10

Hope this information helps. Please let us know if you need any other assistance with Windows in future. We will be happy to assist you.

 

Is it possible to include a pic of what you are seeing in Disk Management?

 

Shutdown computer. Now disconnect external drive. Start computer and once all applications have loaded re-connect the external drive and watch for Windows to declare that a new device has been discovered and drivers are being installed. Once that is done Explorer will open showing drive contents or you will be prompted for what action to take with the device.

 

Thank you, Railtech! The drive is back with all the data on it! Phew!

Meebers, thank you for the effort as well.

Marking the thread as solved. Thanks!