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Hello,
My first problem is that i run powershell with admin rights and ran chkdsk f: /f /r . I thought it would restart pc after that but no, just started running chkdsk until now, so i could access the disk. Now, after about 3 hours total progress is 0%, but in phase 2, is this normal? should i wait? HD is not SSD and with 3.63TB capacity. I made chkdsk previously with CMD and didnt take so long, maybe is slower cause didnt boot windows?
Another problem is that the hard drive which made the windows boot was hit and cant be recovered. I had a SSD with the old windows partition, but dont know why needed this other hard drive to boot, i couldnt start Windows so i saw in the internet that could use bootrec /fixmbr, then bootrec /fixboot and then bootrec /rebuildcbd but that just made it worse. After making a clean install in other SSD i see the old windows partition in the other SSD shows my partition with all the data as EFI dont know why and cant access it, i tried to assign it a letter but gives me access denied
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I think i made a mistake, windows asked me to initalized the disk to MBR or GPT, i read GPT was better, but later thought this hard drive probably was MBR as it is some years old, so now i cannot access the data by any means it seems, why Windows ask me MBR or GPT instead just using the same type it had?. I heard about TestDisk software which repairs the boot sector but dont know if this will be fixed
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When Windows initialize a drive, all data are removed from a drive. Unfortunately just rewriting boot sector is not enough. You may try to use DMDE in attempt to recover previous disk structure but something hex editing skills are needed.
Are you sure? i read this article where they say it doesnt erase any data, that is why i did the initialization https://www.easeus.com/resource/will-initializing-disk-format-it.html
Just found this https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/initialize-new-disks seems you are right, those mother **** just wanted to destroy my data so that i bought their app
I contacted aeseus and they said yes initializing disks deletes data but then you can restore it paying them...it is scam. But also told me i didnt initialized really cause partition is RAW and initialized should be unallocated, so seems the initialization failed, do you think it can be the case?
