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Bastid
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my friends hard drive

Post by Bastid »

seems to be having some trouble...

its a maxtor80 gig external one of the small ones... he tells me he has like 2 folders of music on it, one has just a few gigs in it the other has almost 10 gigs... well he went to the larger folder and saw that it only had about 6 gigs in it... what could be going on here?
Every normal man must be tempted at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
I often wonder if the voices in my head ever get frustrated because I'm just too damn lazy to climb that clock tower.
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Post by YoshiMon »

When a drive starts to go bad Windows chkdsk will do what it can to keep the drive still usable as it fails. To that end it will stick files that would otherwise be lost in the root of the drive.

Check the root and then it might be time for a new drive.
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Post by morbidpete »

enable hidden files and see of there si anything else on it. also load up disk manager int he administer toold and make sure the pariotion takes up the whole drive
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Post by Bastid »

the properties say that there are 15 gigs of used space... but i can only find about 5 gigs of files... I also misunderstood him... it wasnt 6 gigs he could find but it was only 6 hundred megs out of a 10 gig file.

i also cannot get chkdsk to work for anything but C:
Every normal man must be tempted at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
I often wonder if the voices in my head ever get frustrated because I'm just too damn lazy to climb that clock tower.
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Post by Sava700 »

just sounds like to me he deleted stuff and forgot about it. If your slaving the drive you should be able to run a scan disk from the drive properties within tools.
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Post by YARDofSTUF »

Old maxtor drive, heh, its gonna blow!

Save anythign you can, it probably doesn't have much time left.
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Post by Roody »

Run a file recovery program on it (They have trial versions) and see what it finds. Although it won't replace all those files with a trial version it will at least give you an idea of what you have to deal with.
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Post by YARDofSTUF »

There are free recovery programs as well.

http://undelete-plus.com/

http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/

http://www.softwarepatch.com/tips/howto ... overy.html
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