Hello all I've currently run into an issue on my bulk storage HDD on my work computer.
I'm running Win 7 Pro with an i7-4790K and an Asus sabretooth mobo. The C: drive is a Samsung 850 pro 256GB and the mass storage drive is a WD Red 6TB.
According to the event log the drive started showing errors a few days ago and this morning it would only let me access certain directories the others all giving me an error code to the tune of drive corruption. I tried some simple things I saw online to no avail such as re-installing the disks drivers or changing the drive letter.
The major problem is the drive is showing up as RAW now so I can't access anything at all and windows wants me to reformat. Can anyone recommend a recovery software to get the data off of this there's close to 4TB of stuff on here that I really really don't want to lose and have to do again as it would take months.
The software can be Linux, Mac, or Windows based I just need to recover this partition. It was just bulk storage not a boot disk of any type.
I'm currently running easeUS on it to see if it will at least find some files.
This is now the 2nd WD Red 6TB that has failed in our office in under a week has anyone had similar bad luck with these drives? The first seems like the internal motor simply won't spin the platters as we can see the drive mounted in Linux but can't access the data on it. Any suggestions for that drive would be appreciated as well.