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Disk suddenly asking to be formatted.


Gbyrd

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My disk lost its letter drive and now Windows cannot see it. Disk Management still does, and it is asking me to format the disk. I am wondering if this is ok to do, or is my data gone?

 

EDIT: Looks like letting it mount and download some info from the disk fixed the issue. No format necessary

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Whatever you do, if you want to recover the data, don't format it. Is the disk showing up as "RAW"? What was the format before? ReFS? NTFS? 

 

So i just left the disk and it eventually fixed itself. It was downloading stuff i disabled upload threads and finally mounted with the correct Drive Letter. If it goes RAW it compeltely breaks. I have had that happen once already and man it destroyed a 20TB drive.

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