how do i recover data from my d drive

Question

I had some important data stored on my D Drive and it appears that drive is now wiped clean. Is there a way of restoring this if it just happened earlier this morning? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

There are some free tools to recover deleted data (if not overwritten later...)
I had tested this one : Recoverit Data Recovery

Answer 2

What had happened that it was discovered to be "wiped clean"?

Was it RAW or something else?

Check the drive by running Sea Tools for Windows long generic test > post images or share links into this thread

https://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/support-content/downloads/seatools/_shared/downloads/SeaToolsWindowsInstaller.exe
https://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/support-content/downloads/seatools/_shared/downloads/pdf/SeaTools-for-windows-en-us.pdf

Open administrative command prompt and copy and paste: (all at one time)

diskpart
lis dis
lis vol
sel dis 0
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par
sel par 5
det par
sel dis 1
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par
sel par 5
det par

Type:
ctrl + a
ctrl + c

Paste into this thread using ctrl + v

If the drive has failed then backup files using partition recovery software (typically a small portion is free but most are by fee) or professional recovery services.

https://www.seagate.com/products/rescue-data-recovery/

Some software that can be tried are testdisk, diskgenius, minitool partition wizard, etc.

These are some links with software vendors:
https://www.handyrecovery.com/best-data-recovery-apps.html
https://www.cleverfiles.com/howto/testdisk-alternative.html

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Answer 3

Check and fix file system errors for the D drive

Step 1. Open Windows Explorer, find out D drive, right-click it and choose “Properties”.

Step 2. Click “Tools”, click “Check” and follow the pop-up prompts to scan and fix errors on partition D.

After that, you are supposed to restore D drive data that are missing out of file system errors.

Greetings,
Peter