Weird One...Files not showing
Posted: 31 Mar 2019, 16:27
Hi,
I have an 1tb NTFS Hard drive, of which I was using around 155-160GB. It is the internal drive of a laptop. it stopped booting windows a few days ago, and would instead boot to the recovery options (i.e. troubleshoot, system repair etc.). When trying to backup using HP Recovery it would say destination drive not connected even when it was, and when using the notepad.exe through cmd it crashed mid transfer after saying that one of the files needed administrator privileges. Before that, I could see the file structure and was just trying to back it up. Foolishly, I did not take it out and just copy over the data. now it no longer shows the files. I've put it in an enclosure and windows is showing it as unallocated in diskmgmt.msc and not showing at all in windows explorer.
when I was using HP recovery, through it i ran a chkdsk (read-only) which crashed at around 53%. I've got it in the enclosure now hooked up to another PC running testdisk. it shows the partition, but when I hit p to view the files it only shows one folder which is called Intel. I've not seen this folder before, and nothing in it has any of my files. what can I do?
This was done on logical drive, but it also shows physical drive which I'm doing a deep search on now. both are showing same results so far from what i can tell.
Any and all help would be appreciated. I want to have more of a plan before i proceed and try other things and lose any chance of recovering that EXTREMELY important data.
Thanks, JB
I have an 1tb NTFS Hard drive, of which I was using around 155-160GB. It is the internal drive of a laptop. it stopped booting windows a few days ago, and would instead boot to the recovery options (i.e. troubleshoot, system repair etc.). When trying to backup using HP Recovery it would say destination drive not connected even when it was, and when using the notepad.exe through cmd it crashed mid transfer after saying that one of the files needed administrator privileges. Before that, I could see the file structure and was just trying to back it up. Foolishly, I did not take it out and just copy over the data. now it no longer shows the files. I've put it in an enclosure and windows is showing it as unallocated in diskmgmt.msc and not showing at all in windows explorer.
when I was using HP recovery, through it i ran a chkdsk (read-only) which crashed at around 53%. I've got it in the enclosure now hooked up to another PC running testdisk. it shows the partition, but when I hit p to view the files it only shows one folder which is called Intel. I've not seen this folder before, and nothing in it has any of my files. what can I do?
This was done on logical drive, but it also shows physical drive which I'm doing a deep search on now. both are showing same results so far from what i can tell.
Any and all help would be appreciated. I want to have more of a plan before i proceed and try other things and lose any chance of recovering that EXTREMELY important data.
Thanks, JB