Why can't I see the files?

aliasojo

Recover (J) 19.1GB free of 29.9GB

(K) 70.3MB of 99.9GB

Got Recuva to show ignored files.....there's an entry that states...

SBadClus.....102396KB. I'm assuming that's bad clusters.

onzey

Odd, when I expand the picture On my ipad it looks like

70.3MB of 99.9MB for K

The units definitely look different for J and K. Must be my eyes.

aliasojo

onzey wrote: »

Odd, when I expand the picture On my ipad it looks like

70.3MB of 99.9MB for K

The units definitely look different for J and K. Must be my eyes.

Apologies, you are right....K is MB, J is GB. Too quick to type without thinking.

onzey

So how big is this laptop drive and do you know how much was used/free and how it was partitioned?

aliasojo

The laptop was a 320GB in total (Hitachi drive....http://www.drivemylaptop.co.uk/LaptopDriveDetails.aspx?p=1995).

I don't know exactly how much was free but I would guess at around 50%. I had cleared some stuff off the lappy a month or so ago.

I had never partitioned it...it was as it was from new. The Recovery partition was there from new and I never saw/touched that.

onzey

Have you tried looking at Local drive E as it would seem that's where the majority of stuff must be or is that not associated with the 320GB drive in the caddy?

aliasojo

I can't access that at all. When I click on it, a blank window opens and everything hangs.

onzey

Would I be right that you don't normally have an E drive on the host laptop you are attaching this caddied drive to and therefore the E drive is part of the caddied drive?
i.e. if you detach the caddy E, J and K will all disappear.

aliasojo

Yes.

When I plug the laptop drive (in the caddy) into the main host pc (desktop now), 3 drives show up. I do not know why this is.

E - just a picture of a drive, no info about size etc, does nothing when clicked on (Completely blank window opens and window hangs, takes ages to close, shows 'non responsive message')

J - Recovery drive, has info about size, can see the files (all system stuff, drivers etc)

K - Has info about size, states there are files on there but clicking open opens a window that states file folder empty. Recuva showed info about bad clusters on this partition.

onzey

Can you right click on the E drive and choose properties and see if it reports anything about size?