External hard disk showing unallocated after plugging to Windows 11

[hardis2030]

I have a 1TB Buffalo HD-PCU2 hard disk which was working perfectly.
Today for the first time I inserted it into a windows 11 system. It showed the new drive in the file explorer for a few minutes (though not accessible). After that I could not see the drive.
After that checking from the disk management, it is showing uninitiated & unallocated. Also the 1TB drive is showing up as a 2TB drive.
I tried with other machines having windows 10. But it is not working.
Can anybody help me find how I can recover the data from the drive.
The driver events are given below
Device USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_BUFFALO&Prod_HD-PCU2&Rev_0108\303030514234443137303734&0 was configured.

Driver Name: disk.inf
Class Guid: {4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}
Driver Date: 06/21/2006
Driver Version: 10.0.22000.1
Driver Provider: Microsoft
Driver Section: disk_install.NT
Driver Rank: 0xFF0006
Matching Device Id: GenDisk
Outranked Drivers: disk.inf:GenDisk:00FF2002
Device Updated: false
Parent Device: USB\VID_0411&PID_01D9\303030514234443137303734
-0

Device USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_BUFFALO&Prod_HD-PCU2&Rev_0108\303030514234443137303734&0 was started.

Driver Name: disk.inf
Class Guid: {4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}
Service: disk
Lower Filters:
Upper Filters:
-0

Device USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_BUFFALO&PROD_HD-PCU2&REV_0108\303030514234443137303734&0 was deleted.

Class Guid: {4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}
-0

Device settings for USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_BUFFALO&Prod_HD-PCU2&Rev_0108\303030514234443137303734&0 were not migrated from previous OS installation due to partial or ambiguous device match.

Last Device Instance Id: USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_SanDisk&Prod_Extreme&Rev_0001\AA010116131122394547&0
Class Guid: {4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}
Location Path:
Migration Rank: 0xF000FC000000F120
Present: false
Status: 0xC0000719

 

[Darren]

What is reported under Device Manager for this drive?

Was working fine until used in Windows 11 and now doesn't work at all? I'd like to think that MS isn't just bricking drives but if you removed it in the middle of an active process, it's possible.

Hard drive recovery is a finicky process and you might need a professional service to get very far with this.

 

[hardis2030]

device manager shows the name of the device and on checking properties it says it is working fine.

 

[Darren]

You able to get a screenshot of disk management?

 

[hardis2030]

Here you go. Note that the drive is actaully 1TB.

https://imgur.com/a/ha1NzWh

 

[Darren]

Given the drive is 11 years old and a portable (bumped and moved a lot) I would think it's more likely it's just dead. The driver error gives me some pause but if it's not reporting a drive issue in device manager it might just be done.

I assume the data on it is important? If it's not, I'd try reinitializing the drive, but that will take out whatever is on it currently.

If the data is crucial, I'd get in contact with a data recovery company.

 

[hardis2030]

Thank you. The data is important. So will try some data recovery company.