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Files Disappear from Hard Drive
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<blockquote data-quote="jayne_cobb" data-source="post: 1427206" data-attributes="member: 32856"><p>Hey all</p><p></p><p>I had a ton of files on an external drive that have suddenly disappeared. The storage space on the HD suggests 99.7% of it is free....which suggest to me the files are gone and not hidden in some way. Anyway this could not be true? I have tried turning it off and back on again, I have tried restarted the computer. Any thoughts?</p><p></p><p>It was working fine for about 2 months and suddenly they just all disappeared. Interestingly enough I can save stuff to the hard drive now(suggesting it still works). I am quite certain I didn't accidentally delete 500GB worth of music/photos etc.</p><p></p><p>Fortunately this was kinda a backup(of sorts) so while I am very disappointed that I lost stuff I am not losing my mind.</p><p></p><p>Would love though if by some miracle someone could help me recover this (I don't know if this will make sense but I sorta had it organized in a different way as it was a backup)</p><p></p><p>but perhaps more importantly</p><p></p><p>What happened? I'd like to avoid this again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jayne_cobb, post: 1427206, member: 32856"] Hey all I had a ton of files on an external drive that have suddenly disappeared. The storage space on the HD suggests 99.7% of it is free....which suggest to me the files are gone and not hidden in some way. Anyway this could not be true? I have tried turning it off and back on again, I have tried restarted the computer. Any thoughts? It was working fine for about 2 months and suddenly they just all disappeared. Interestingly enough I can save stuff to the hard drive now(suggesting it still works). I am quite certain I didn't accidentally delete 500GB worth of music/photos etc. Fortunately this was kinda a backup(of sorts) so while I am very disappointed that I lost stuff I am not losing my mind. Would love though if by some miracle someone could help me recover this (I don't know if this will make sense but I sorta had it organized in a different way as it was a backup) but perhaps more importantly What happened? I'd like to avoid this again. [/QUOTE]
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