Game HDD drive went to RAW after windows install

[Neko Yumi]

Hello everyone, i have a bit of a weird issue

I have received a brand new NVM-E SSD and decided to install it.

I had 3 SSD's and 2 HDD's previously.

After installing windows without any disk being plugged in, only the NVM-E, i shut down my PC and inserted the drives ( and installed drivers ) 

One of my SSD's is detected, however, my HDD is unrecognisable and forced to being formatted before use, was usable perfectly before 

the system file reads "RAW" 

Are my files lost? What are my chances to recover? I have a TB of games in there... <-<

 

Thank you in advance! 

[curiousmind34]

1 minute ago, Neko Yumi said:

Hello everyone, i have a bit of a weird issue

I have received a brand new NVM-E SSD and decided to install it.

I had 3 SSD's and 2 HDD's previously.

After installing windows without any disk being plugged in, only the NVM-E, i shut down my PC and inserted the drives ( and installed drivers ) 

One of my SSD's is detected, however, my HDD is unrecognisable and forced to being formatted before use, was usable perfectly before 

the system file reads "RAW" 

Are my files lost? What are my chances to recover? I have a TB of games in there... <-<

 

Thank you in advance! 

Check your motherboard manual, and see if plugging in an nvme drive disables sata ports.

[Neko Yumi]

1 minute ago, curiousmind34 said:

Check your motherboard manual, and see if plugging in an nvme drive disables sata ports.

Thank you, checking now, i have an ASUS prime Z390-A

 

EDIT : it wouldn't make sense, my drive is well recognised but in RAW system file.

[curiousmind34]

2 minutes ago, Neko Yumi said:

Thank you, checking now, i have an ASUS prime Z390-A

created this list:

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xJKCvW

Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z390-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($169.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($144.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($55.49 @ Newegg) 
Total: $370.47
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-03-16 15:39 EDT-0400

and found this

[Neko Yumi]

1 minute ago, curiousmind34 said:

created this list:

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xJKCvW

Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z390-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($169.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($144.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($55.49 @ Newegg) 
Total: $370.47
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-03-16 15:39 EDT-0400

and found this

Interesting.. thank you for your search i'll try swapping the ports..? 

[curiousmind34]

Just now, Neko Yumi said:

Interesting.. thank you for your search i'll try swapping the ports..? 

Yeah, I would try that.

[Neko Yumi]

41 minutes ago, curiousmind34 said:

Yeah, I would try that.

UPDATE! 

After some weird turn of events, it would seem that trying to use one or either of the HDD drives result in them being either unreadable in RAW or litterally blocking windows from launching.

They seem to have some system files that can read each other and get detected by windows.

I will try to backup the data somehow and re-format them to fix the issue.

 

EDIT: i'll consider the thread solved, i'll create a new one if another issue arises.

 

[Slayerking92]

Did you turn bitlocker on for those drive in the old windows?  or use some other drive encryption software?