Help Me with me Hard Disk

[alexjames2320]

Guys Please help me i'm very sad about that i have a folder with a lot of basketball videos and music that i downloaded a lot of time in an external hard disk
yesterday when i got on the disk i saw most of my folders empty!! guys i don't know what happened but my disks space is the same as it was before i had 2 GB free space and now is the same so how it can be empty what should i do

 

[StalkeR]

One stupid opinion,maybe your files are hidden?
And go to Safe Mode,check from there. And another one,boot some Linux distribution like Ubuntu as live cd,mount partition from there,and check. :sarc:

 

[alexjames2320]

i check them if they are hide my friend and they didnt appear i didnt check for safe mode im going to do that thanks but any other opionions friends i dont want to lose those files they are very important for me

 

[StalkeR]

Did you try the last one? To boot with Linux live cd?

 

[richnrockville]

Have you checked your trash? It could be that they were deleted by accident or you could have moved the whole folder inside another folder. Try searching on one of the file names that you know should be there.

Rich

 

[SIW2]

If you have restore points - then you will have shadow copies.

Use shadow explorer to copy back anything you need from your shadow copies:

ShadowExplorer.com - About

ShadowExplorer.com - Manual

 

[Bill2]

If you have restore points - then you will have shadow copies.

Use shadow explorer to copy back anything you need from your shadow copies:

ShadowExplorer.com - About

ShadowExplorer.com - Manual

Dont think most people have system restore turned on for external drives.

 

[SIW2]

Seems like a good idea to me - perhaps most don't tho.

 

[alexjames2320]

i tried to search the files guys nothing happened im going to try and see if they appear in safe mode or on my ubuntu
operation i hope it will be ok they are so usefull to me i need them back

 

[alexjames2320]

well guys i tried everything i log on safe mode and see if they appear but nothing happened i log on to my Ubuntu system and nothing happened my problem is that the files are not deleted cause my free space is the same as when the file where there what should i do know anyone know any other thing that can i do

 

[DocBrown]

Can you try the external HD on another computer ? Maybe a friends computer ?

 

[James Colbert]

As Doc suggests, checking the drive on another system is a good idea.

It may also be, since your disk space is unchanged, that there is a disk error at play:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/433-disk-check.html?ltr=D

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/96938-check-disk-chkdsk-read-event-viewer-log.html?ltr=C

James

 

[alexjames2320]

guys i checked the driver in another system on a friends pc and again the same thing the folder appears like empty
do u think i can run an error scan for my drive and see if there is a problem there?

 

[theog]

guys i checked the driver in another system on a friends pc and again the same thing the folder appears like empty
do u think i can run an error scan for my drive and see if there is a problem there?

YES,

Than Check the hard drive with the manufacturer's diagnostic tools.
Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities (Storage) - TACKtech Corp.
HD Diagnostic

 

[alexjames2320]

what can i do with this? i dont know how to use it my friend

 

[Creer]

what can i do with this? i dont know how to use it my friend

Have look at this post:
http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/142349-cloning-laptop-hdd.html#post1223488

If you have your external HDD connected via USB then probably you won't be able check SMART in this software but in the "Error Scan" tab in HD Tune you will be able to check all disk sectors (remember to uncheck Quick Scan box) if there are any damaged/bad sectors on your drive.

 

[alexjames2320]

ok my friend thank u i hope this could be helpful well now i put my hard disk for a error scan when it will
finish if the problem remains i will try ur suggestions thanks again all of you for the help guys and sorry if i was
pissfull i just want to have my files back

 

[alexjames2320]

well guys i checked my disk for errors it took 1 hour and when it finished i got a message that was saying that i have
corrupted sectors and errors and that my windows can not fix them it deleted my folders with the basketball videos and my music but the disk space is the same the free space that means my files are there but how can i get them back?

 

[gregrocker]

Try using Recuva to see if it can reconstruct the deleted files: Recuva - Features

 

[alexjames2320]

thanks friend i will use it right now!