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    External Drive Needs a Simple Volume created but.......


    I have a Seagate 4TB external spinning drive. It has a LOT of very valuable data on it!Until this week it has worked perfectly but on inserting the drive, Windows Explorer is not able to find it.Device Manager found it so I opened up Windows Disk Management. The drive is displayed as basic online but with 3,726 GB unallocated.I ran a recovery programme and 12 hours later it has found 4.3 TB of files and double clicking some of them reveals that the files are still there and openable. Copying only some of these files is going to take forever.Back to Disk Management . Right clicking the unalloc

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