Windows 10: Windows 10 Installation- old windows data in secondary drive

Is Recuva still running? That may be what it's telling you.

 

No, I stopped Recuva

 

Can you eject the drive? MY PC, right click D:, Eject.

 

No eject option found.

 

Pardon me, but I thought earlier you said you had it disconnected. Is it an internal plugged into a SATA jack?

 

Yes, it's an internal plugged into a SATA jack.

 

Something in the OS has ahold of it. Just run CHKDSK D: , without the /F. If it finds anything, we'll go from there. Or you could restart and see if the system will then let you do it with /F.

 

Here is the result of CHKDSK.
Code: C:\Windows\system32>CHKDSK D: The type of the file system is NTFS. WARNING! F parameter not specified. Running CHKDSK in read-only mode. Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ... 213248 file records processed. File verification completed. 4341 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ... 278572 index entries processed. Index verification completed. 0 unindexed files scanned. 0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found. Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ... Security descriptor verification completed. 32663 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal... 40996728 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed. Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems. No further action is required. 312568831 KB total disk space. 36609780 KB in 135331 files. 112744 KB in 32664 indexes. 0 KB in bad sectors. 330771 KB in use by the system. 65536 KB occupied by the log file. 275515536 KB available on disk. 4096 bytes in each allocation unit. 78142207 total allocation units on disk. 68878884 allocation units available on disk.[/quote]

 

Ok, Riz. Now I'm stumped. Not beaten! Just stumped. I'm hesitant to do much more, honestly because outside of apps like Recuva, data recovery at this level is getting out of my league, and I don't want to break something if it's fixable as is. If it were restoring images or similar, I would know where to go next.

Do @axe0 or @essenbe have any more ideas or other members that might know?

 

Thank you so much for your time, concern and of course effort you made to give your best.

Kindly suggest me if I should take it to any data recovery center or shop. Can they help to get all my data back?

 

Yes, Riz, they can......butttttttttttttt, $$$. Others would know a good guesstimate, but reliable data recovery is not going to be cheap. I'd exhaust all resources here before going down that road. Just my opinion.

 

Thank you so much for your kind support. Will think about it.

Stay Blessed,

Kind Regards,

 

Boot into safe mode, then run the chkdsk command suggested by @f14tomcat. If the OS is still preventing it to run, just run it by pressing Y, it cannot be serious enough to cause more problems in safe mode.

 

Will check it and let you know.

 

Thank you, Martijn......