Having issues creating a mount point for a volume

[CAD4466HK]

This a duplicate post that I made in the Operating System forum, maybe this is a drive question?
Hopefully some one can help me out here.

One of my HDD's on my media server has been been misbehaving recently and not showing up in Windows after coming unplugged and being plugged into a different port.
I tried first to find it using Disc Management and it doesn't even appear, so I hooked it up on another system and it shows up in Disc Management, but it doesn't show the partition, only unallocated space.

I've dealt with this before with other drives, so I used a piece of software called Find&Mount to make sure that my data was still there and that the drive didn't take a shit.
Data shows up fine (movies) and is able to be watched.

I hooked it back up to my server, bring up CMD and try to use mountvol to find the unmountable drive. I find it easily and input this to try to manually mount it:
mountvol E: \\?\Volume{c2158fd9-91b3-11e1-a23a-806e6f6e6963}\

It comes back with "directory is not empty", so I try another drive letter and this time it mounts but with nothing on it.
So I tried E: again and the same "directory is not empty" again.

My question is, what other command should I try to use to mount it? Should I try to use /R to get rid of the directory's or will that screw up my data? /P gets rid of the mount points, but there is none to get rid of. Or should I try another method altogether?

 

[Grebuloner]

Did you use a different SATA cable?

 

[applegrcoug]

Another thought....

Let's say you booted into clonezilla...is it seeing the partitions? Maybe clone it?

 

[CAD4466HK]

Did you use a different SATA cable?

Yes. Several.

 

[CAD4466HK]

Another thought....

Let's say you booted into clonezilla...is it seeing the partitions? Maybe clone it?

Worth a shot, will report back with my findings.

 

[CAD4466HK]

Welp, Clonezilla only found unallocated space like everything else did.
So I said fuck it and took a binary, read only image of it and transferred it to another drive with Find & Mount.

Mounted the drive through the program, wiped the drive clean, then copy and pasted the movies back on the drive with a different drive letter.
It's transferring at 30MB/s , but at least I don't have to torrent over 200 movies again.

Thanks for the help fellas.

 

[applegrcoug]

Welp, Clonezilla only found unallocated space like everything else did.
So I said fuck it and took a binary, read only image of it and transferred it to another drive with Find & Mount.

Mounted the drive through the program, wiped the drive clean, then copy and pasted the movies back on the drive with a different drive letter.
It's transferring at 30MB/s , but at least I don't have to torrent over 200 movies again.

Thanks for the help fellas.

well, hopefully that clears up your problem and it doesn't return. Beats me....sometimes things don't make sense.

And yeah, spinning rust is slow to write. I've moved my collections over a few times and it takes a couple days.

 

[CAD4466HK]

well, hopefully that clears up your problem and it doesn't return. Beats me....sometimes things don't make sense.

And yeah, spinning rust is slow to write. I've moved my collections over a few times and it takes a couple days.

The drive in question should be transferring anywhere around 60mb/s to 80mb/s at least, 1Tb Barracuda LP.
I dragged and dropped a 10GB movie on it after the wipe to make sure it was up to snuff and those were the speeds I was use to getting with it.
Might be something to do with the image I'm guessing?

Being this is 1 out of 16 on my server that's been in service since 2011, I count myself lucky that this is the first time that I've had to do this. I've battled bad Sata cables, sata cards and power cable adapters, but nothing this severe.

I do appreciate your help.