The Data is still there, but I can't see it. The drive is verified good.

erikthebald · 01-08-2009, 10:37 PM

I had some hidden files on a drive. During a shutdown, I saw an error but can't remember the wording. Something about J-files not saved. When I rebooted, the two folders containing the data, mostly videos, were not visible when the Drive icon was opened in "My Computer"
I know the files are still present on the drive as one was listed under the documents tab from the start button and played in real player when I clicked it. The Real Player file name has changed from

J:\Film\Defiance\Deviance.avi

to

J:\found.001\dir0000.chk\Defiance\Defiance.avi

I tried plugging this into the Windows address bar but it just restarts the video.

I saved several other files to the drive since the event and they are fine, visible and read/writable.

When I run Defrag, it clearly shows that it is defragging files I know to have been on the drive prior to the event. It's about 230 gigs of DVDs that I have ripped into backup format and I'd hate to have to start all over again.

Any advice. Is there a software package better than testdisk 6-10, which on a deep scan finds only the two files I've put on the drive since it happened.

**raptor_pa** · 01-09-2009, 08:28 AM

Try getdataback or r-studio from the path the files are pointing to it appears you ran checkdisk on the drive. Also did you defrag after the failure? If so then it is quite likely data has been overwritten and is now unrecoverable. Getdataback and r-studio will both let you run in demo mode to see what files are recoverable before you purchase the key to actually recover, and are very reasonably priced for what they do. Good luck and keep us posted!

01-08-2009, 10:37 PM	#1 (permalink)
erikthebald Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1 OS: XP	The Data is still there, but I can't see it. The drive is verified good. I had some hidden files on a drive. During a shutdown, I saw an error but can't remember the wording. Something about J-files not saved. When I rebooted, the two folders containing the data, mostly videos, were not visible when the Drive icon was opened in "My Computer" I know the files are still present on the drive as one was listed under the documents tab from the start button and played in real player when I clicked it. The Real Player file name has changed from J:\Film\Defiance\Deviance.avi to J:\found.001\dir0000.chk\Defiance\Defiance.avi I tried plugging this into the Windows address bar but it just restarts the video. I saved several other files to the drive since the event and they are fine, visible and read/writable. When I run Defrag, it clearly shows that it is defragging files I know to have been on the drive prior to the event. It's about 230 gigs of DVDs that I have ripped into backup format and I'd hate to have to start all over again. Any advice. Is there a software package better than testdisk 6-10, which on a deep scan finds only the two files I've put on the drive since it happened.

01-09-2009, 08:28 AM	#2 (permalink)
raptor_pa Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central PA Posts: 4,874 OS: XP	Re: The Data is still there, but I can't see it. The drive is verified good. Try getdataback or r-studio from the path the files are pointing to it appears you ran checkdisk on the drive. Also did you defrag after the failure? If so then it is quite likely data has been overwritten and is now unrecoverable. Getdataback and r-studio will both let you run in demo mode to see what files are recoverable before you purchase the key to actually recover, and are very reasonably priced for what they do. Good luck and keep us posted! __________________