So I connected a new HDD to an unoccupied SATA port on the motherboard. From within windows, I then migrated some data across and everything looked good.
Shutdown the machine.
I then removed an older volume, and plugged my new HDD into that SATA slot. I did that because my motherboard is ridiculously tight for space, and the SATA port for the new HDD is squashed by the presence of the graphics card.
Power back up.
Not good - my new volume is now showing as "Unallocated Space". It obviously has no drive letter. No sign of any file structure whatsoever.
Shutdown the machine again.
Revert to previous SATA port (the one squashed under the graphics card). Same problem. The volume is detected, but shows "Unallocated Space". This is despite being in the same SATA slot as it was a few minutes ago.
Has anyone seen this kind of behaviour before? Windows should not care which SATA slot its connected to, but something has obviously gone wrong here.
And my next question will be. If I can't reconfigure this successfully, does anyone have any experience of any good recovery software? The data has to be out there!
Thanks
