Hard drive corrupt? About to lose files?

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JustAnotherSaver

Thanks. I've not heard of that one. When doing Google searches the 2 that seemed to come up more than any other were EaseUS and Recuva.

From what I've read, I'd be leaning towards EaseUS Data Recovery.

Now if someone wishes to say don't use that [because], use this other one [because] then that's fine. I'd like to know if there's something better and why it's better.

But I'm hoping it doesn't come to that.

I guess I'll find out in 13% time.

Assuming this drive does get fixed. Would you guys say it's 'bad'? As in back up what I can from it and then bin it, or if it gets fixed is that it - perfectly fine?

I know the age of it is irrelevant as you can have a bad drive after 1 day but it's a couple years old. CrystalDiskInfo says Good drive.

debitcardmayhem

JustAnotherSaver said:

Thanks. I've not heard of that one. When doing Google searches the 2 that seemed to come up more than any other were EaseUS and Recuva.

From what I've read, I'd be leaning towards EaseUS Data Recovery.

Now if someone wishes to say don't use that [because], use this other one [because] then that's fine. I'd like to know if there's something better and why it's better.

But I'm hoping it doesn't come to that.

I guess I'll find out in 13% time.

Assuming this drive does get fixed. Would you guys say it's 'bad'? As in back up what I can from it and then bin it, or if it gets fixed is that it - perfectly fine?

I know the age of it is irrelevant as you can have a bad drive after 1 day but it's a couple years old. CrystalDiskInfo says Good drive.

I wouldn't rely on it , but don't they come with 3yr warranty ?

JustAnotherSaver

Well whether chkdsk did this or what I don't know but it's finally finished and I've lost I think probably in the region of 3.5TB-4.0TB.

The worrying thing is is that when I did a quick run of the EaseUS program and it pulled the folders

Plex

D - Terabyte

Those are the only 2 folders that have been saved/rescued since chkdsk has finished.

So as I said earlier, there's about 10 folders or more missing - and that's without counting god knows how many sub folders among those 10 folders.

Of the 2 parent folders that have survived, they are each missing content. So it's not just the other parent folders on the drive that's gone, it's the other parent folders plus contents of these 2 folders.

That's what it said when finished. Really not sure why it wrote out instagram.

I went to the System32 folder out of curiosity, have it set to show everything. There's nothing saying instagram there. Weird.

JustAnotherSaver

debitcardmayhem said:

JustAnotherSaver said:

Thanks. I've not heard of that one. When doing Google searches the 2 that seemed to come up more than any other were EaseUS and Recuva.

From what I've read, I'd be leaning towards EaseUS Data Recovery.

Now if someone wishes to say don't use that [because], use this other one [because] then that's fine. I'd like to know if there's something better and why it's better.

But I'm hoping it doesn't come to that.

I guess I'll find out in 13% time.

Assuming this drive does get fixed. Would you guys say it's 'bad'? As in back up what I can from it and then bin it, or if it gets fixed is that it - perfectly fine?

I know the age of it is irrelevant as you can have a bad drive after 1 day but it's a couple years old. CrystalDiskInfo says Good drive.

I wouldn't rely on it , but don't they come with 3yr warranty ?

The annoying thing is, I can't find the receipt for it. I thought maybe I got it through my wifes Amazon perhaps if she maybe had Prime at the time - but can't see it in her account either.

Tried my eBuyer account - nothing.

Wont be eBay. I'd never buy a HDD off eBay.

Anyway, time to try EaseUS & pray.

Will disconnect everything bar the OS drive & the problem drive, connect up the new 8TB drive and hope this works.

JustAnotherSaver

Ok not sure what's going on.

Having a look what I have spare to transfer over what's been rescued before I start EaseUS & in Computer it states...

4.41 TB free of 5.45 TB.

Ok so I need about 1TB. Great, not sure I have it spare on an external.

So I highlight the 2 folders on the drive, right click, select properties ......... 472GB.

So where's the other 500GB then?!

And the other 4TB on top!

debitcardmayhem

You may find that chdsk has created files called ????00001-000002 etc but cant remember what the format is

I think its CHKxxxx

debitcardmayhem

debitcardmayhem said:

You may find that chdsk has created files called ????00001-000002 etc but cant remember what the format is

I think its CHKxxxx

Oh and maybe they are "hidden/system" files check on your view options on file explorer

JustAnotherSaver

debitcardmayhem said:

You may find that chdsk has created files called ????00001-000002 etc but cant remember what the format is

I think its CHKxxxx

I wouldn't know where to look for them tbh.

They're not on this disk anyway.

debitcardmayhem said:

debitcardmayhem said:

You may find that chdsk has created files called ????00001-000002 etc but cant remember what the format is

I think its CHKxxxx

Oh and maybe they are "hidden/system" files check on your view options on file explorer

Nope, I always have show all hidden files/folders ticked. I've just checked & it's still ticked.

Went in to disk management & it corresponds with what's showing in Computer - basically about 4TB is missing.

JustAnotherSaver

Ok may have got somewhere but not sure where or what it means.

I've just gone in to Recycle Bin on C drive.

It throws up constant error message saying Recycle Bin on I drive (problem drive) is corrupt, do I want to empty the bin?

I click no.

When the message eventually goes, I see in the Recycle Bin are various files and folders that should be on the I drive.

Not all of them, I suspect because the Recycle Bin can't hold that much, but they're there & I certainly never deleted them.