Solved Challenge for Experts. I am 25 years on PC but cant solve this - need only Expert opinions

Rollback_Jockey · Jan 18, 2024

formingus said:
Now, just simply leave this thread

Thankyou i will stay.

formingus · Jan 19, 2024

antspants said:
In Disk Genius scanning result, some files or folders are tagged with a red or green deletion icon. The green one means the folder contains deleted data, and the red means it is the deleted file/folder.

What is in the “Orphaned Files“ folder showing in Disk Genius?
At a guess I’d say you ran some type of software on your drive and totally screwed it.

To whatever effect, I’d unmount the drive in Disk Management… then reboot a couple of times with the drive disconnected from the PC. Then remount the drive. If the drive doesn’t show, I’d then try changing the drive letter (as I said earlier in the thread) to something other than D: or K:
This all may seem pointless but you haven’t got anything to lose. I have rediscovered drives before, screwing around like this.

Ok, thanks will do that, just to clarify the steps.

With Unmount drive, do you mean put Offline? bcz at Disk Management everything is grayed out except Offline and Help.
With the drive Disconnected, do you mean the previous unmount or physical disconnect from the SATA port of the mainboard?
And last one, don't know if you saw my screenshot upload, but there is no Drive letter present at Disk Management. I can change the Drive letter by other partition tools but on Device Management still appear WO Drive Leter, Missing Drive Letter at Device Manager can cause this problem.

formingus · Jan 19, 2024

antspants said:
By the looks of the results of his screenshot of Disk Genius, there are only a couple of folders left. There is a folder called “MyAppsBackUP” that has been deleted by the looks, not much else left. This is why I think they have run something on the drive and screwed it. But I guess.

No,

“MyAppsBackUP”

Thats my existing folder

formingus · Jan 19, 2024

Winuser said:
Could the drive itself be the problem?

No, 100% is not a drive problem, dunno if you read the whole thread, id mention that I can access the drive and files via Explorer++ as Administrator. Plus tested with Sentinel, HD Tune, SMART status and all clusters, everything look fine

formingus · Jan 19, 2024

antspants said:
That would be my guess. Or at the least needs to be wiped reformatted/partitioned.

That is my last option, because i need to buy another 4TB HDD to do that, if I am unable to repair this problem, will do that and let you guys know what happens after format hdd

Winuser said:
If the drive is the problem I hope they can recover any data that they don't want to lose.

No worries, thanks for your concern. I have access to files via Explorer++ as Administrator, but for any other work will ask for admin rights, like saving files, opening dialog, creating files/folders etc, Its become too annoying to work in this way.

Rollback_Jockey said:
Thankyou i will stay.

As you wish, just don't offend me as you did in first post bcz I didn't offend you, I ask for help

wimorrison · Jan 19, 2024

Looks like K drive has been created as an EFI partition firm the disc manager image. You should have created it as a data partition if you want to store stuff on it.

antspants · Jan 19, 2024

formingus said:
Disk Management everything is grayed out except Offline and Help.

View attachment 84484

Ahh sorry, I missed that earlier. yes, disconnect the drive from the MB, reboot a couple of times. But I am guessing you might be in for a deletion of the partition in Minitools and a reformat, if the drive hasn’t died.

formingus said:
No,

Thats my existing folder

Then why is there a red deleted icon on “MyAppsBackUP”? Disk Genius places those on deleted folders.

wimorrison said:
Looks like K drive has been created as an EFI partition firm the disc manager image. You should have created it as a data partition if you want to store stuff on it.

Good point

kelper · Jan 19, 2024

You can use DiskGenius to change the K: drive partition from EFI to NTFS or FAT32 and that should restore access.
Right-click, Modify Partition Parameters and then select from the drop-down list. But uncheck the box 'no drive letter' to retain it as K:

formingus · Jan 19, 2024

wimorrison said:
Looks like K drive has been created as an EFI partition firm the disc manager image. You should have created it as a data partition if you want to store stuff on it.

That Disk had 2 Partitions - 1 250 GB had Win 7 installed - Rest was Data, that Worked fine. (Hope i understand what you trying to say)
This is my Actually info of Disk

formingus · Jan 19, 2024

kelper said:
You can use DiskGenius to change the K: drive partition from EFI to NTFS or FAT32 and that should restore access.
Right-click, Modify Partition Parameters and then select from the drop-down list. But uncheck the box 'no drive letter' to retain it as K:
View attachment 84485

This is Actually How Parameter's Look - Change to MBR has limit of 2TB, same way Change to FAT32 will Limit Files to 4GB - Thanks for Advice

kelper · Jan 19, 2024

In post #1 and #62, you show that it is an EFI system partition?

formingus · Jan 19, 2024

Thanks to all of you that try to help. Problem resolved with 2 Click - Writing this in order if some member will have this kind of problem so any f us can help him.
What I did was - With Disk Genius - Device state was Online. I put it to Read Only then I Removed Read Only and HDD Works Fine Now
Diagnose. Probably somewhere HDD was getting some TAG as read-only and ding this revert to normal State

Thanks to all of you that try to help. All the best guys and thanks one more time

formingus · Jan 19, 2024

kelper said:
In post #1 and #62, you show that it is an EFI system partition?

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As i say, I work with same parameter's for year. After you advice me i open Disk Genius and saw that there are those parameter's
Thank you one more time for being part of help. Problem solved byu doing Read Only then Revert to Normal with Disk Genius...

Nikolaos · Jan 19, 2024

I had the same problem and after installing the controller's driver from the manufacturer (found on motherboard's dvd), the problem was solved.

kelper · Jan 19, 2024

@formingus

I'm happy that you got it sorted. Now make sure to backup regularly with a program like Macrium Reflect. It is far quicker to restore from a recent backup than it is to fault find or reinstall Windows. A backup make take only a few minutes and a restore will be just as quick.

x BlueRobot · Jan 19, 2024

I'm glad to hear that you managed to resolve the issue, I guess the way to check without any third-party tools would have been the following from command prompt:

Code:

diskpart
list disk
select disk #
attributes disk

formingus · Jan 19, 2024

Nikolaos said:
I had the same problem and after installing the controller's driver from the manufacturer (found on motherboard's dvd), the problem was solved.

In my case wasn't the controller, all i know is that tired me a lot. Nice to hear that your case was solved too

kelper said:
@formingus

I'm happy that you got it sorted. Now make sure to backup regularly with a program like Macrium Reflect. It is far quicker to restore from a recent backup than it is to fault find or reinstall Windows. A backup make take only a few minutes and a restore will be just as quick.

I am using Acronis for Backup, but in this case, there wasn't a data problem because I got access as an administrator.
The problem was that on each command like, save as text on that drive, open any folder on that drive, etc asked for Admin rights or was denied. Thanks for contributing to this thread.

x BlueRobot said:
I'm glad to hear that you managed to resolve the issue, I guess the way to check without any third-party tools would have been the following from command prompt:

Code:

diskpart list disk select disk # attributes disk