Question: Hi all!
What happens here is really really really bad, If anyone can, please help
I will try to explain as detailed as i can.
Background
I had an i5 760 win 10 installation on a Samsung 860 SSD with 2 WDs HDD as internal (1 black and 1 blue) and 3 my books as external.
Old System
GA P55-USB3
i5 760
win 10 on Samsung 860 SSD
2 WDs HDD (internal)
3 my books ( external)
A friend gave me a E5-2670 and bought an ASUS X79 Sabertooth at about 120, so i decided to proceed with the upgrade.
New System
Asus X79 sabertooth
E5-2670
win 10 (same installation / no format)
I didn’t format the SSD and tried to boot straight forward since many say that win10 does not need fresh install anymore for mobo replace.
It took about 10 minutes and everything was setup and working perfectly.
My only problem was that bootloader was in legacy since my previous GA-P55-usb3 didn t support UEFI. I enabled both legacy and UEFI in bios and got it working.
For about 2 weeks everything was great except of some suspicious random disconnects from the external drives.
The disconnects started to be a bit annoying, plus i had a thing with the bandwidth of my external audio card (an antelope Orion 32), forgot to say this is a DAW station, via USB. So i started suspecting a problem with the USB hardware or driver.
Fixed it by connecting Orion in a USB expansion connected to the motherboard extra ports.
One drive continued to have random disconnects so i decided to change all 3 externals to internals
and then ALL
Main problem
Disassembled one MyBook, got the WD Green and placed it internal. booted, All Good.
Disassembled the other two MyBooks and as soon as i booted up with them as internal, windows saw them as Unallocated. …
I am skipping the panic and the despair, I restored them with easeus partition recover after many many hours of search.
The next day as i bootup in the morning, my internal WD Black goes Unallocated. PC takes about 5 minutes to boot. The disk is making clicking sounds. I am panicked.?I manage to read it with easeus deep scan. I go and buy a new 4TB WD Blue. and after several hours i restored nearly everything on the blue.
Forgot to say, for all restore procedures i am using an old laptop with win10 and an external double HDD bay. I copy to a smaller 500GB and i move the files with this one to the 4TB in my main rig.
Next morning, i boot up and BOOM! the new WD Blue goes Unallocated. No partitions to restore Only solution deep scan. I managed to save the data once more. ?
Side story, one of the WD Green externals, after going unallocated and saved, it went unallocated again 2 days after!! As an external this time
Could somebody please give an advise? What is this craziness?
Could it be the motherboard ?
the SATA cables?
The PSU?
The win 10 installation?
Every day i am terrified to open the PC and i always have an HDD beeing restored in the back on my laptop.
The worst of all is that i can’t find a pattern in this behaviour.
My next steps are to install win 10 in a new SSD and see if same things are happening.
But still what can cause such behaviour?it is the most frightening situation i ever came across with a PC.
Thank you all advance for you patience.
cheers
Answer:It appears that LBA 2 has been cleared. Very strange.
R-click the New Volume partition and select “Insert the Partition (Undelete)”. Then Apply Changes and reboot.
If you don’t see that option, then double-click the partition and expand the Root. Do you see your file/folder structure?