Cannot see data while drive shows space as used

[kavish]

I copied my hard drive's(internal drive) data to another computer using an external casing.I copied it back later and in a hurry I forgot to unmount and removed the drive from the USB interface and plugged it back to my laptop(internal drive). Now I can see the space as full but I cannot see the folders even.
Issues :
I have lost my collection of softwares? (I will be happy if it can be recovered)
I cannot reclaim my hard drive's space.

Tried:
Getdataback
NTFSUndelete

Note:
I do not have copies on the backup computer and also I have tried the above mentioned softwares on the backup computer.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Hello and welcome kavish mate try this

BOOTABLEUBUNTU

Makea bootable Ubuntu disk http://www.ubuntu.com/download

Setthe BIOS to boot from the optical when the machine boots it will show you ascreen with TRY or INSTALL > select TRY

Whenit is finished - it takes very little time you will get a screen like in thepic .

Openthe drive you want > User and dig down until you get to the data / settingsyou may be able to copy / paste the material you want to an external source orother installed drive doing this.

Iam not sure if it will but I have recovered tons of data etc using this methodboth on "dead" or just plain drives that you cannot get data fromusing Windows.
NB You can hook the drive to the machine direct or with a USB gadget.

 

[kavish]

Already tried the same

Thanks for the reply but I have already tried what you have suggested and it was not a successful attempt.Though I have recovered the data from the drive of my backup computer.
Existing issue:
The drive which has the OS had a folder which I cannot see(and I don't need it anymore),the problem is that I cannot reclaim the space used by the folder and I don't want to format and reinstall the OS.

Additional Info:
I think the issue is with the file system(though no utility reported so) or the directory structure.

Is there any way that I can access the directory structure,so that I can correct it.

 

[Ztruker]

May be a file system corruption problem.

Press the Window key + the R key to open a Run box.
Type chkdsk c: /r and press Enter. You will see the following:

The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by
process. Would you like to schedule this volume t
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)

Type y and press Enter.
Reboot.

Chkdsk will start, let it run to completion.

 

[kavish]

Already tried

Thanks for the suggestion I have already tried the chkdsk and sfc utilities.

 

[Layback Bear]

You state.

Thanks for the suggestion I have already tried the chkdsk and sfc utilities

Which means very little unless you include what results you received when you did chkdsk and sfc.

 

[kavish]

No problems found

When I ran chkdsk and sfc,the system gave the response as "No problems found".