R-Studio not finding any large partitions on 3TB drive
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 3:07 pm
Background: I have a 3TB hard drive installed in my computer for storing DATA only. Due to BIOS settings It shows up as a removable drive in Windows 10 Pro because hot-swap is enabled. I ran Microsoft's utility for downloading the latest Windows 10 and installing it to a USB drive. I plugged in a USB flash drive and clicked the prompts without noticing that it selected the 3TB DATA drive and formatted it to a 32GB drive. I noticed this after finding out the USB flash drive was still blank. First I tried to use partition recovery software to restore the partition. As none of the software found any large partitions no changes were made. After that I deleted the 32GB partition on the 3TB drive and used R-Studio 8.1 to create an image to a 4TB drive figuring I'd recover the data back onto the 3TB drive. Now even though the 3TB drive was setup as a NTFS with just one 3TB partition after scanning the entire drive R-Studio wasn't able to locate any NTFS partitions larger than 680GB, which it found quite a few of. I'm going through these but so far not finding anything. Btw - this drive had a lot of .vhd images on it, not sure what R-Studio does with these or any other image type files that may be on the hard drive.
Question? Why doesn't R-Studio find the original 3TB partition? Any suggestions on how to proceed?
Thanks,
Patrick
Question? Why doesn't R-Studio find the original 3TB partition? Any suggestions on how to proceed?
Thanks,
Patrick