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Laptop HDD Shows Folders but No Files
After getting a couple of KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR screens my Toshiba laptop which I've had for four years, gave me a f3-f100-003 error screen.
I bought an enclosure for the hard drive and plugged it into my HP laptop, it views the drive and I was able to open it, it shows the folders for Windows, Users, etc. but it shows them as empty. My HP laptop is set to view hidden folders and files so I'm not sure if this is a security issue or what.
Both my Toshiba and HP laptops run Windows 7. My Toshiba was a 32-bit, my HP is 64.
Is there anything I can do to get my files back? I think it's encouraging that I can view all the folders and that the drive does show that data is on the disk, it's a 500 GB drive and only 23 GB was free, same as when I started getting the errors so I know it can find something on the drive.
I have tried running CMD as an admin and it will show the drive when I list all the drives but it won't let me switch to it, it just stays on C:.
Do I have hope? Thanks a lot!