Question Drawing a Blank

[Brado78]

Hey Guys, My secondary internal hard drive suddenly erased it's self , went to bed that night, turned my comp on and Drive E never showed up and it came up unallocated. I ran Seagates tool thingie and of course it came up No errors, i thought maybe the connection and tried it in another machine and it came up blank as well 🙁, time for a new one or am i missing something!!!

Thanks Guys

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

The file system might have gotten corrupted somehow but if you haven't messed with it too much the files might still exist. You could look for some free file restoration utilities that will scan the drive for files and allow you to copy them off the drive and then you'll be able to format it with a new file system and start over.

I don't think there's a way to "fix" the drive in this state, but maybe someone with more experience with this can chime in.

 

[mindless1]

You can try various HDD scan/recovery software to try to find and restore the partition, for example:

Partition Missing in Windows 10, 8, 7? Get it Back Easily!

Partition missing and you cannot see it in Windows File Explorer or Disk Management? This article introduces how to get back missing partition easily.

www.diskpart.com

Google Search

 

[sdifox]

10 Best Partition Recovery Software in 2026 (Including FREE)

Explore the top 10 partition recovery software tools designed to retrieve your lost, inaccessible, or deleted partitions and the data they stored.

www.handyrecovery.com

 

[aigomorla]

This is not normal....

I would pull a SMART info on the drive using something like Crystalinfomark.

CrystalDiskInfo

About CrystalDiskInfo A HDD/SSD utility software which supports a part of USB, Intel RAID and NVMe. Aoi Edition Standard Edition Shizuku Edition Kurei Kei Edition Download System Requirements OS Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10/11Windows Server 2003/2008/2012/2016/2019/2022/2025 Architecture...

crystalmark.info

On the top bar you will see CrystalDiskInfo. The versions do not matter, its either cute anime girl (shizuka), or maid cool beauty anime girl (kuri Kei)

It will pull the SMART info off your drive.

try to post the smart values for the reported drive.
I do not trust seagates software. It does and almost servers no point or purpose besides you holding off RMAing the drive.

If SMART pulls clean, i think you may have bigger problems...
Your Northbridge Controller might be on the road to dying... or your SATA cable, or you may have a ransomware.