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Power Went Out When Moving User Accounts
I have two WD Blue 1T Drives. One was filling up with pictures and games used by three people, plus all the apps, so I was going to do a clean install, and put all user files on the second WD Blue 1T drive. (I bought the second over a year ago with intentions of doing it then, just never got to it, so the second one was blank and formatted when I started.)
Of course, the power went out during sysprep. Now that power is back on, neither drive shows up; it is as if nothing is on either of them. I used a cord to connect them to my laptop and one shows up in the file explorer (the one I was moving files to) but not in disk management. (Yes, happily I had backed up all important stuff so there is no data lost, whew!). The other one doesn't show up anywhere. I don't have another desktop to put them in to try, only the one and the laptop where I connected them to.
Am I stuck with data I can't get to because both these drives are bricks? Is there anything I can do to fix this? Or just throw them away?
Is there a way I could use Linux to "see" them then format them and use them as if nothing happened?