Well, since I was stupid enough to pull (an unrelated) usbstick while my ext hdd was busy copying something to my intern hdd and therefore ejected itself I lost quite some data.
To put this in perspective:
Space the Harddrive is "showing as used" => ~3,30 TB SHOULD be used...
Space actually seen when calculating all of it together:
=> about 600 GB seem to be "Lost" (they ARE on the disk however the files are not there, empty folders where files used to be).
I tried using testdisk which usually helped me in such cases:
[spoiler][/spoiler]
The problem now however is the reproted
"disk too small issue"
Is there any way I can copy ALL of the found files to another disk perhpas ?
I have another 4TB ready for migrating files over.
Except if there is a way to fix this without using that disk.
Thanks in advance to those of you who know more about testdisk than I do
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Re: Testdisk to recover "lost" files form 4TB ext HDD
If you know where your lost files are, run TestDisk, Advanced, List
If you don't, run "chkdsk /f d:" (replace d: by the correct drive letter) and next if needed, use PhotoRec to recover files from the free space, be careful to store the recovered files on another disk
If you don't, run "chkdsk /f d:" (replace d: by the correct drive letter) and next if needed, use PhotoRec to recover files from the free space, be careful to store the recovered files on another disk
Re: Testdisk to recover "lost" files form 4TB ext HDD
Checkdisk completly fixed it