I have a SSD boot drive, with two HDDs (640GB WD Black, 3TB WD Blue) attached for mass storage.
Got home last night, and am not sure what happened. I went to my computer, and it was sitting on a weird desktop. It was an older iteration I used a while back. I finally realized that what had happened was my PC must have crashed while I was away, and tried to boot to the Blue HDD after the fault (it had been a boot drive for a short period of time, and I guess W10 was still on there). There was some explorer.exe error on the screen, but I admittedly did not record what it said. Regardless, the PC wouldn't do anything but display that error message. So, I restarted it, and sent it back over to boot to my SSD.
After the reboot, I realized that I didn't have access to stuff on that Blue drive. It's just giving me an "Access is denied" message. I disconnected the SSD and tried to boot back to the HDD, but it refused. It basically get to the W10 startup screen (with the W10 icon and rotation circle), and just sits. Restarted it, and it did a scan to repair the drive. It got through, said it was 100% complete, and never progressed. It sat overnight, for about 7 hours, and never moved.
So, I restarted it again. The drive, during this, has shown 0 bytes across the board (used and available). The Black drive has no issues and works just fine. I've since disconnected it, just to keep it out of the way. Anyone know of a way I can try accessing the thing and/or recovering the data? I'd rather not just try to format it and lose stuff without seeking outside help first.
Got home last night, and am not sure what happened. I went to my computer, and it was sitting on a weird desktop. It was an older iteration I used a while back. I finally realized that what had happened was my PC must have crashed while I was away, and tried to boot to the Blue HDD after the fault (it had been a boot drive for a short period of time, and I guess W10 was still on there). There was some explorer.exe error on the screen, but I admittedly did not record what it said. Regardless, the PC wouldn't do anything but display that error message. So, I restarted it, and sent it back over to boot to my SSD.
After the reboot, I realized that I didn't have access to stuff on that Blue drive. It's just giving me an "Access is denied" message. I disconnected the SSD and tried to boot back to the HDD, but it refused. It basically get to the W10 startup screen (with the W10 icon and rotation circle), and just sits. Restarted it, and it did a scan to repair the drive. It got through, said it was 100% complete, and never progressed. It sat overnight, for about 7 hours, and never moved.
So, I restarted it again. The drive, during this, has shown 0 bytes across the board (used and available). The Black drive has no issues and works just fine. I've since disconnected it, just to keep it out of the way. Anyone know of a way I can try accessing the thing and/or recovering the data? I'd rather not just try to format it and lose stuff without seeking outside help first.