I recently picked up a 3TB HDD to replace an older drive I still had in my system, and while installing it, I accidentally didn't push the SATA cable in all the way. So of course disk management in Windows couldn't recognize the drive, but I thought it might have been an issue with the SATA controller's firmware. So I went ahead and updated that, but after I booted into Windows and opened up disk management, I was prompted to choose MBR or GPT partitioning for a new drive. Thought it was the 3TB hard drive being recognized, since I couldn't scroll down while the message was there to check, so I chose GPT (drive was previously partitioned with a MBR), but it turns out it was one of my other 1TB data drives.
Now I didn't reformat the drive, but it's been unallocated since that happened and I don't understand why updating the firmware for the SATA controller randomly caused this drive to stop being recognized. Is there any way I can access the drive now without formatting it, or did I screw it over by selecting GPT? There wasn't any visible action after I chose that, so I'm not sure if anything was actually changed or if it was just selecting the method for when I would format the drive.
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Drive was randomly unallocated, selected GPT when drive was previously MBR, did not format the drive yet. Can I still access the files?
Now I didn't reformat the drive, but it's been unallocated since that happened and I don't understand why updating the firmware for the SATA controller randomly caused this drive to stop being recognized. Is there any way I can access the drive now without formatting it, or did I screw it over by selecting GPT? There wasn't any visible action after I chose that, so I'm not sure if anything was actually changed or if it was just selecting the method for when I would format the drive.
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Drive was randomly unallocated, selected GPT when drive was previously MBR, did not format the drive yet. Can I still access the files?