Recent content by Solfaur

No, I don't want to give up, but given the time I spent in trying to fix this and find fixes I kind of reached a point where I loose all hope. The only solution I can see now would be proffesional data recovery, but the data is not THAT valuable to me to warrant the cost of these services...

Problem is there are very few programs that restore GPT 3TB partitions, O&O is one of the few and probably best amongst them. :(

I didn't, all I did was after the initial restart when I entered disk management and the disk was only seen as 800~ gb it automatically converted to gpt. Then I updated mobo bios, and when the drive was again seen as 2.7TB I ran O&O discrecovery with the above given result. Oh well, I guess...

Hey drescherjm, are you saying that if I would use a linux live (gparted to be more precise, wich I tried but my mouse's click and keyboard does not work for some reason) boot cd I could recover my whole partition in the same way it used to look? Because as you can see in my last screenshot...

What I did use was O&O DiskRecovery Tech Edition. After 26 hours it actually found pretty much all my 1.98 TB of data BUT (and this is a BIG but) it does not recover my file and folder names and structure, so I have for example 200 GBs of AVI (F005678.AVI, F005980.AVI, F008658.AVI etc.), then...

Hey Opcode, so you managed to recover your 3TB files with MagicCute Data Recovery? I tried several software and non seems to do the tirck. I also tried to acces my drive thorugh a linux live boot cd, but somehow whenever I enter linux and try to use gparted my Mouse and Keyboard are not...

Yea I thought it weird myself but it happend... and it was most probably my mobo's/bios fault since the hdd looks healthy enough.

Well I do have like 1.25 TB space on my gaming raid0, and from the data that was on the 3TB one I only need to recover 500-800 Gbs max. It's still 4 hours left untill O&O DiskRecovey finishes so I'll have to hope for the best, but really I'm so dissapointed by this whole thing. I will look...

Same here, no news on the matter yet I take it?

What is weird is that when I got this HDD I did run a full format to NTFS and it worked with no problems for several months. But probably when I physically went over 2.2Tb the corruption happend. I'm using O&O DiskRecovery atm and I will leave my pc on for the next 10 hours since it will take...

Well yes but if I do that I will loose all my data, and I don't want that if it's possible... is there no way I can acces those files again even though I didn't do any format or messing with them when my problem occured? :(

So, I updated to the latest official bios for my mobo - F8 that came out April 2011 and apparently has added 3Tb support in it's description. I also moved my drive to a SATA III Marvell connector and this is what shows up after reboot... It did not ask me to choose GBT or MBR... just shows...

Do you think I should try and look for one of those beta bioses for my mobo that maybe added support for 3Tb HDDs?

You are right, but I saw this and apparently Gigabyte released http://www.gigabyte.com/microsite/276/3tb.html for 3Tb support even for 32-bit OS and my mobo is included in that list. I even read a review of this particular 3Tb HDD done o my particular mobo model, so surelry there has to be some...

I have a 2010 Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 mobo and I stopped updating the bios somewhere in 2011 since it wasn't really supported anymore. Atm all my HDD/SSD are in the ICH10R SATA ports, do you think I could try to stick the 3Tb drive to the "gigabyte SATA" ports or Marvell 9128 ones that are free?