Thank you Spunk, I am trying Partition wizard at the moment, and will try Test Disk if that does not prove successful.

What I am also hoping to understand is what has physically gone wrong, while...

Hi Sorry for the shameless bump, but would like to have an answer here, haven't found an answer online yet and it's doing my nut in!

Hi All,

First thread on these forums but noted a few posts with similar but not quite the same symptoms.

I have a 1TB Seagate external USB3 HDD (not an ssd just a normal spinner). On two Win 10...