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Sihlouette · 02-25-2008, 12:39 AM

One morning i turned on my computer and as it was booting a diagnostic came up checking all of my files on my external hard drive (Western Digital 250gig).
I left it to check the files, but after an hour or so it was still going, so i manually turned my computer off. i turned my computer on again and the same thing came up...but before it started i ordered for it to be canceled. My computer booted fine yet when i went to open folders in my external HD it said some files might be corrupted and i couldnt access the files in the folders.
I screwed around with the HD and some programs for a bit and eventually it ended up to where all the files in my external HD became 32bk...everything...250gigs worth of movies, music and programs became 32kbs each.
However when i looked at the properties of my external HD it said that the HD was nearly full with only 2 gigs spare.
I have brought my external HD into a shop and have runned recovery programs myself yet nothing has worked.
What can i do to recover all my files?

02-25-2008, 12:39 AM	#1 (permalink)
Sihlouette Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 4 OS: xp	All files in Western Digital HD are 32kb!!! One morning i turned on my computer and as it was booting a diagnostic came up checking all of my files on my external hard drive (Western Digital 250gig). I left it to check the files, but after an hour or so it was still going, so i manually turned my computer off. i turned my computer on again and the same thing came up...but before it started i ordered for it to be canceled. My computer booted fine yet when i went to open folders in my external HD it said some files might be corrupted and i couldnt access the files in the folders. I screwed around with the HD and some programs for a bit and eventually it ended up to where all the files in my external HD became 32bk...everything...250gigs worth of movies, music and programs became 32kbs each. However when i looked at the properties of my external HD it said that the HD was nearly full with only 2 gigs spare. I have brought my external HD into a shop and have runned recovery programs myself yet nothing has worked. What can i do to recover all my files?