This morning, one of my external hard drives shows that it has the same amount of space it did yesterday, but half of my files in a folder are missing. The files have to be there (the space is still the same), yet they're gone.

What I did was a virus scan (had some trojans), turned off system restore and rebooted in safe mode, then scanned.. Then this morning it was like that. I was going to do a system restore but the only restore date available is from this morning, which will not help.

Anyone know how to fix this? There's a few things I wanted to back up and hopefully I can salvage them before having to erase everything.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

JaY

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Download the trial versions of a few recovery utilities and see what they can find. Then buy one if it can recover the files you need.

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Originally posted by JayD This morning, one of my external hard drives shows that it has the same amount of space it did yesterday, but half of my files in a folder are missing. The files have to be there (the space is still the same), yet they're gone. What I did was a virus scan (had some trojans), turned off system restore and rebooted in safe mode, then scanned.. Then this morning it was like that. I was going to do a system restore but the only restore date available is from this morning, which will not help. Anyone know how to fix this? There's a few things I wanted to back up and hopefully I can salvage them before having to erase everything. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. JaY

SHIT MAN. I lost everything on my harddrive a while back. It totally crapped itself. All I can say is: i hope you have DVD backups of all your important files!!!

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you ran scan disk on the drive? or for xp right click on teh drive in my computer, click properties, then teh tools tab then scan for error checking

Jon

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Norton Disk Doctor. Know exactly how you feel, some moron at work tried to back up a ton of shit on a file server where I run my database and filled up all the available space. So go figure, users went to update my data and got the message "Error disk full". It wasn't their hard drive, but the server hard drive they were linked to. They corrupted my database and I spent f*cking hours this weekend recovering everything exactly back to the point where it broke. I figured since the database was down anyhow, I might as well spend the rest of my weekend upgrading the database to push a change package. Everything went in place cool this morning, working better than normal with new features and stuff and I didn't even get a godd*mn thanks... Welcome to the real world!


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backup is your friend

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Originally posted by smokeape Norton Disk Doctor. Know exactly how you feel, some moron at work tried to back up a ton of shit on a file server where I run my database and filled up all the available space. So go figure, users went to update my data and got the message "Error disk full". It wasn't their hard drive, but the server hard drive they were linked to. They corrupted my database and I spent f*cking hours this weekend recovering everything exactly back to the point where it broke. I figured since the database was down anyhow, I might as well spend the rest of my weekend upgrading the database to push a change package. Everything went in place cool this morning, working better than normal with new features and stuff and I didn't even get a godd*mn thanks... Welcome to the real world! [[[smoke]]] Terradia ft Damona - Drowning in Dreams

time for a big ass SAN?

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Originally posted by MERLIN time for a big ass SAN?

Time to get drunk again....lol!


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Thanks for the replys.

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Originally posted by igottaknow Download the trial versions of a few recovery utilities and see what they can find. Then buy one if it can recover the files you need.

Luckily this works the best. I recovered all of the lost folders that I needed onto one of the other hard drives, and backed em all up.

Sweet.

Yea I backup very often, but there are somethings that need backing up daily that you probably wouldn't want to loose eh.

JaY

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Originally posted by JayD Luckily this works the best. I recovered all of the lost folders that I needed onto one of the other hard drives, and backed em all up. Sweet. Yea I backup very often, but there are somethings that need backing up daily that you probably wouldn't want to loose eh. JaY

glad to hear you got ur data back. been there it sucks loosing shit.

the backup comment was directed at smokeape. no one in their right mind runs a database without daily backups, unless you don't care.

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Originally posted by igottaknow the backup comment was directed at smokeape. no one in their right mind runs a database without daily backups, unless you don't care.

Hehe yea, I know. I meant in general (because whenever you have a hard drive crash and are worried about loosing shit people assume you don't back up).

I think dvdr was the best thing to come out for this. Backing up little 700 mb wasn't cutting it.

JaY

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Originally posted by JayD Hehe yea, I know. I meant in general (because whenever you have a hard drive crash and are worried about loosing shit people assume you don't back up). I think dvdr was the best thing to come out for this. Backing up little 700 mb wasn't cutting it. JaY

I couldn't be bothered waiting for dvd to burn. I have hard drive rack and tray setup that allows me to copy my entire internal drive in a few minutes.