u/Cheedaman1609

Hard drive suddenly corrupted

Hi, this is my last resort at trying to find help since I genuinely have no idea how to fix this, I'm not very smart with computers so I'm hoping to find some help here.

(Less important)

I'll add some backstory just in case it might be important. I recently downloaded AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition so I could fix my framerate on some of my games. After I installed it my computer started experiencing frequent freezes and lag spikes when playing games, so I uninstalled it and restarted my computer. But that did nothing and my computer still performed badly, so I updated windows and everything kinda went downhill from there. My computer became even slower and my refresh rate was lower, so I reinstalled AMD Software and that seemed to fix it. Again I am not sure if this is what caused my hard drive to become corrupted but I'm just leaving this here in case it'll be helpful.

(What's happening)

I was going to play some games but all of my shortcuts are broken (Steam, Epic Games, Rockstar Games, are all corrupted). I checked file explorer and saw that my hard drive is no longer formatted to (D:) drive. I was going to re format it to my D drive but it said that if I did so then I would lose all of my data on it. I ejected my hard drive and unplugged it and plugged back in, but that did nothing. I opened disk management and it said that my (D:) disk is "RAW".

I have almost no hope and I really don't wanna lose all my files, I have multiple game saves, movies, videos, photos, and other files I do not wanna lose. I am praying that someone could help with this. Thank you.

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u/Cheedaman1609 — 4 days ago