Several problems with hard drives, with CHKDSK and EFI partition

Anonymous
2022-04-15T17:53:59+00:00

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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  1. Igor Leyko 112.4K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2022-04-21T16:59:00+00:00

    Basic disk means just the disk is not dynamic. It may be MBR or GPT.

    But if DMDE during a whole night scanned only 222 sectors, you have a huge problems with your drive, sorry for bad news.

    If you strongly need a data from a drive, please ask a help from data recovering company. The more you'll be bedevil the drive, the less success chances you'll have.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-04-21T15:23:13+00:00

    I tried TestDisks, gives as options PC/Intel and EFI GPT, but the app recognice by default my disk as EFI GPT but windows told me was a basic disk which means should be MBR, which i think it is the Intel/PC, what should i do?

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-04-21T13:12:53+00:00

    I just ran other app TestDisk, and detects the disk has been used with data up to 3726GB of 4000 GB, so seems my data is still there

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-04-21T12:58:29+00:00

    I ran it the whole night but didnt end, it just shows this. Says the drive is "free", it is in spanish, "libre" means "free"

    I ran the disk manager in windows and now says it is not initialized, unknown and unallocated, so seems it didnt initalized the disk or maybe it did and failed again?, maybe there is a virus

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  5. Igor Leyko 112.4K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2022-04-20T23:40:00+00:00

    Please use DMDE, open drive as a physical device and show a partitions table for analysis.

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