So all of a sudden (and it was very sudden) my drive just stopped working. It still shows up in the device manager but no drive shows up in my computer. I attempted to check the partitions on the drive and got this.
This message pops up
And when I try to initialize
I attempted to hook it up to another computer and same deal. I’m thinking the hdd failed on me but I wanted to double check before I send it in (it’s still under warranty thank goodness). The only problem is I’m going to be losing about a TB worth of data.
You might want to look into something like CGSecurity TestDisk. It’s a free download (with suggested donation), and I just used it this afternoon to repair a drive with a damaged partition table, which suddenly showed up as “unallocated” like yours.
Took about 2 or 3 minutes for the program to fix the partition table.