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Missing folders and files
Alright, here goes the tale of how I ended up hating myself for not making a backup last week as I had planned:
My hard disk layout is pretty simple, I have a 500gb Western Digital as main drive, a 500gb Maxtor where I keep pretty much everything, and an older and not totally relyable 300gb Maxtor that remains unplugged except when I need the extra storage momentairly (all SATA).
So, I had the PC powered off, plugged out my dvd drive to plug in a friend's hdd (IDE) and unplugged my 500gb maxtor to plug in the 300gb. Booted up, moved some files between the forementioned disks, and then, I remembered I needed something I had on my 500gb Maxtor (currently unplugged), so believing that SATA drives could be hot plugged/unplugged, and pulled out the 300gb and placed in the 500gb one, that's when it all began.
Opening the D drive (where the 300gb was, and now 500gb should be), showed the file structure of the 300gb disk, refreshing did nothing and I dared not to open any file. Realizing I had just effed up I decided to restart, thinking everything should come out right then. For my surprise, when booting up, before windows, a commandline message that I had never seen showed up, it was pretty much like when you schedule a ScanDisk for startup, but it said something about indexes needing correction or something along the lines (can't remember quite right). After some blaspheming and thanking Windows7 for realizing I had broken whatever it was I broke, I gave it my nod of approval and let the thing run. And it ran for about half an hour, spewing out line after line of numbers and occassionally (quite regularly actually) filenames and paths, wich kind of made me raise an eyebrow, but hey, it was some system proccess that was running, so I just let it go.
Now, I went ahead to throw some 15 gigs into that 500gb maxtor disk, and when finishing the copy I realized: there was *way* too much free space on that disk! After a quick look I discovered that *many* folders and files were missing! I've tried "GetDataBack for NTFS" but recovering all that data manually and checking what's been deleted and what not is going to be a real pain, so.. Does anyone know some sort of fix for this? I mean, if I hadn't had that proccess run I would still have all that data! Just what was that?!
Thanks in advance, I'm really clueless on this one.