Disk corrupted, now showing empty
Posted: 30 Jul 2017, 19:07
The problem occurrence:
I Connected another usb device while transferring files to an external drive,and the system couldn't handle it. Result: the drive lost some 80gb of data but looks normal on the explorer window
. Yet when opened with explorer, there is nothing inside.
The bad decision:
Panic, tiredness, and impatience led me to silly pick some TestDisk actions on the problematic drive. Result: drive name is gibberish. Now i can see the contents in explorer, but they are unreadable files and folders, also in gibberish.
Undoing previous rash decision:
A long Chkdsk scan on the drive reverted it to the first step, i.e. drive shows filled, but is empty when opened through explorer.
Where am i at now? How can i first have the content displayed/usable and then -possibly- recover the lost GBs ?
I Connected another usb device while transferring files to an external drive,and the system couldn't handle it. Result: the drive lost some 80gb of data but looks normal on the explorer window
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The bad decision:
Panic, tiredness, and impatience led me to silly pick some TestDisk actions on the problematic drive. Result: drive name is gibberish. Now i can see the contents in explorer, but they are unreadable files and folders, also in gibberish.
Undoing previous rash decision:
A long Chkdsk scan on the drive reverted it to the first step, i.e. drive shows filled, but is empty when opened through explorer.
Where am i at now? How can i first have the content displayed/usable and then -possibly- recover the lost GBs ?