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LorraineFernando
I need help figuring this out, please. When I turned on my laptop and turned on my external SATA drive (connected through a docking station), it has now turned to a RAW drive. The drive is healthy but it looks like the file system has been corrupted on it and now I have over 3GB of data, photography files, mostly, that i can't access.
This is not the first time I encounter this issue. Last year, from about March to October 2018, this happened several times. I lost 4 or 5 hard drives this way. I tried everything to resolve the issue: I got new docking stations, made sure I was completely up to date, ran every virus scan and malware scan I could find. Eventually, I ended up restoring my laptop to factory reset and starting all over again, hoping this would clear out whatever was causing the issue. All of that to no avail. The problem continued to occur. The timing seemed to be random and nearly impossible to predict. I had found that other people had similar problems on various forums, but there was no solution. Many comments suggested that it was a Windows problem.
Then, in October, there was a major Windows update. My problem was solved. No problem after that! I thought I was in the clear, until today.
Come the May 2019 Windows update, and this morning, the problem appears again. I'm at my wits ends!
The problem last year seemed to be with Windows not ejecting the drive. I would try to eject from the bottom eject icon on the task bar, but it would tell me that the drive was still in use, even with all applications closed. No matter how long I would wait, sometimes I waited overnight, and still it would not eject. At that point, I would turn Windows off with the drive still active, hoping that it would eject it during the shut down process. Sometimes it was okay, and then sometimes it just corrupted the drive.
I have a back up copy, so it is not a total disaster. I wasn't so well prepared last year and I spent a lot of time carving data off my drives on another laptop. But I can't plug that back up drive in my laptop and risk frying that drive too. So I'm stuck until I have resolved the problem.
Has anyone else experienced this issue? and any ideas on how to resolve it.
My computer set up:
Dell XPS-15
Intel i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60 GHz
16.0 GB Ram
64 bit
Windows 10 Home Version1809 OS Build 17763.503
I run one external USB docking station BlacX, plugged directly in the laptop USB port.
The hard drive that got corrupted today is a WD Red SATA 4.0GB
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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This is not the first time I encounter this issue. Last year, from about March to October 2018, this happened several times. I lost 4 or 5 hard drives this way. I tried everything to resolve the issue: I got new docking stations, made sure I was completely up to date, ran every virus scan and malware scan I could find. Eventually, I ended up restoring my laptop to factory reset and starting all over again, hoping this would clear out whatever was causing the issue. All of that to no avail. The problem continued to occur. The timing seemed to be random and nearly impossible to predict. I had found that other people had similar problems on various forums, but there was no solution. Many comments suggested that it was a Windows problem.
Then, in October, there was a major Windows update. My problem was solved. No problem after that! I thought I was in the clear, until today.
Come the May 2019 Windows update, and this morning, the problem appears again. I'm at my wits ends!
The problem last year seemed to be with Windows not ejecting the drive. I would try to eject from the bottom eject icon on the task bar, but it would tell me that the drive was still in use, even with all applications closed. No matter how long I would wait, sometimes I waited overnight, and still it would not eject. At that point, I would turn Windows off with the drive still active, hoping that it would eject it during the shut down process. Sometimes it was okay, and then sometimes it just corrupted the drive.
I have a back up copy, so it is not a total disaster. I wasn't so well prepared last year and I spent a lot of time carving data off my drives on another laptop. But I can't plug that back up drive in my laptop and risk frying that drive too. So I'm stuck until I have resolved the problem.
Has anyone else experienced this issue? and any ideas on how to resolve it.
My computer set up:
Dell XPS-15
Intel i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60 GHz
16.0 GB Ram
64 bit
Windows 10 Home Version1809 OS Build 17763.503
I run one external USB docking station BlacX, plugged directly in the laptop USB port.
The hard drive that got corrupted today is a WD Red SATA 4.0GB
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Continue reading...