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Files Disappear from Hard Drive
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1427250" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>500 GB of files can not disappear from an external hard drive unless there's a problem with the drive itself. If recovering those files are not critical (you have other copies) I recommend not using that drive for storage. Can you tell us which file format the drive was using? (FAT-32, NTFS, HFS+)</p><p></p><p>I've seen files disappear from a hard drive when the file table on the drive became corrupt. That's a fairly common occurrence when using FAT-32 as it is not a journaled file system.</p><p></p><p>As for recovery software, the best in my opinion is Data Rescue 3, currently on sale from the Mac App store for $59.99.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1427250, member: 46727"] 500 GB of files can not disappear from an external hard drive unless there's a problem with the drive itself. If recovering those files are not critical (you have other copies) I recommend not using that drive for storage. Can you tell us which file format the drive was using? (FAT-32, NTFS, HFS+) I've seen files disappear from a hard drive when the file table on the drive became corrupt. That's a fairly common occurrence when using FAT-32 as it is not a journaled file system. As for recovery software, the best in my opinion is Data Rescue 3, currently on sale from the Mac App store for $59.99. [/QUOTE]
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