New Acer deleted files without prior warning on a external hard drive

enfield_freddy

umm , not 16g of memory , maybe 16g or storage space ,

tavernman

enfield_freddy wrote: »

umm , not 16g of memory , maybe 16g or storage space ,

16g or storage space, surely you mean - 16GB of storage space, grow up fred, or add something useful to solve Cottage's problems.

bsod

do a recuva deep scan, also run it on the other laptop

pulling the usb lead out in the middle of a write may have done the damage.

There are several nexts and warnings before it overwrites anything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBJsh-lkQt8

Cottage_Economy

tavernman wrote: »

OK then read this http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step and try photorec , and calm down read and then follow the instructions, don't rush

The correct size capacity of the device is not being detected. I have a 160gb/149 GiB option, no 30gb.

tavernman

Can you copy the output into this thread ? using the edit option in the black screen and then use paste in here

Cottage_Economy

PhotoRec 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, January 2015
Christophe GRENIER <[EMAIL="grenier&#64;cgsecurity.org"]grenier@cgsecurity.org[/EMAIL]>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
PhotoRec is free software, and
comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.


Select a media (use Arrow keys, then press Enter):
>Disk /dev/sda - 500 GB / 465 GiB (RO) - ST500LT012-1DG142
Disk /dev/sdb - 160 GB / 149 GiB (RO) - Hitachi HTS545016B9A300




>[Proceed ] [ Quit ]


There's some more gubbins at the bottom about checking HD Jumpers, Bios etc if the correct size is not displayed, but that didn't get copied across.

tavernman

OK the external one is /dev/sdb so use the arrows and then press enter and then when it says search press enter and lets see what comes up

Cottage_Economy

bsod wrote: »

do a recuva deep scan, also run it on the other laptop

pulling the usb lead out in the middle of a write may have done the damage.

There are several nexts and warnings before it overwrites anything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBJsh-lkQt8

Sorry but no. Several nexts yes, but warning no.


The procedure on the video link is different to what I was guided through:


a) The warning at 1:23 did not come up, only the tree with the drive to select.


b) The next page at 1:27 was absent. There was no warning about everything being deleted.


c) The next page did not happen either. The next page I saw had the warning that is showing at 1:23 on the video, which is when I pulled the hard drive out.


There was no progress slider at any point either, yet it was all immediately deleted.


I can't explain why or how. All I know is the second I saw the phrase 'will be deleted' I pulled the plug on the whole thing but lost it all anyway.

Cottage_Economy

tavernman wrote: »

OK the external one is /dev/sdb so use the arrows and then press enter and then when it says search press enter and lets see what comes up

This is what I have:


PhotoRec 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, January 2015
Christophe GRENIER <[EMAIL="grenier&#64;cgsecurity.org"]grenier@cgsecurity.org[/EMAIL]>
http://www.cgsecurity.org


1 * FAT32 LBA 0 32 33 4177 117 36 67108864 [RECOVERY]


To recover lost files, PhotoRec need to know the filesystem type where the file were stored:

[ ext2/ext3 ] ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem
>[ Other ] FAT/NTFS/HFS+/ReiserFS/...

tavernman

It should highlight Other press enter then it shouuld select free and search press enter
Come back after it has searched