Restore File Viewing from NTFS
Posted: 29 Jan 2023, 22:49
My external hard drive of which I back up everything got corrupted a few days ago and showed RAW on Disk Manager when I looked at it. I generally have it plugged in to work on something and if I need something else from it, grab it too.
I didn't unplug it without the safe to unplug notification either. When I first saw it was unreadable I figured it was just like, loading in and it would take a second.
But then I saw that it actually is just straight up blank even after like 20 minutes since booting up the computer.
So I went down this small rabbithole of trying to find ways on how to recover my files. Particularly some of the folders I'd been working on for the past 3 years.
First I found that one video for Disk Drill which while I did like, the 500 MB that I didn't know until after like 4 hours of scanning was what got me looking for an alternative.
So I found TestDisk, which I've loved so far, however, i've also been doing chkdsk with the same arguments as all the tutorials have (/f /r).
While I have been able to recover my files luckily. I know that basically 90% of all my files still exist. It's just that on the Explorer it doesn't show anything. Only a single rar file I had on the main directory.
I've also tried looking up through various searches with different wording and the like, however I have no idea what I need to be looking up. It all goes to "recover files", while what I want to see is my files on the drive "unhidden" and unhidden just gives tells me to use the setting like it's all hidden, which it isn't.
Is there a way to restore this? I've fiddled with each option on TestDIsk and run chkdsk multiple times as everyone keeps saying and it still doesn't show me the files on the drive itself.
I'd rather not have to download the whole unorganized file structure and then copy back to it after formatting.
I didn't unplug it without the safe to unplug notification either. When I first saw it was unreadable I figured it was just like, loading in and it would take a second.
But then I saw that it actually is just straight up blank even after like 20 minutes since booting up the computer.
So I went down this small rabbithole of trying to find ways on how to recover my files. Particularly some of the folders I'd been working on for the past 3 years.
First I found that one video for Disk Drill which while I did like, the 500 MB that I didn't know until after like 4 hours of scanning was what got me looking for an alternative.
So I found TestDisk, which I've loved so far, however, i've also been doing chkdsk with the same arguments as all the tutorials have (/f /r).
While I have been able to recover my files luckily. I know that basically 90% of all my files still exist. It's just that on the Explorer it doesn't show anything. Only a single rar file I had on the main directory.
I've also tried looking up through various searches with different wording and the like, however I have no idea what I need to be looking up. It all goes to "recover files", while what I want to see is my files on the drive "unhidden" and unhidden just gives tells me to use the setting like it's all hidden, which it isn't.
Is there a way to restore this? I've fiddled with each option on TestDIsk and run chkdsk multiple times as everyone keeps saying and it still doesn't show me the files on the drive itself.
I'd rather not have to download the whole unorganized file structure and then copy back to it after formatting.