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| Thread ID: 106125 | 2009-12-27 19:39:00 | All my music files are gone! | stumpys (12625) | Press F1 |
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| 843680 | 2009-12-30 13:17:00 | Have you tried going to disk management (Start/right click 'My Computer'/Properties?Manage.....and see if your 'E' Drive shows there? I mean...does it have a drive letter?.....guess it must do if it shows in My Computer?..?..? " Upon opening my computer it shows my E: drive as having no disk size/free space etc despite it being a 80gb hard drive. The hard drive properties also shows 0 bytes available and 0 bytes free. " ........strange one this I presume that your 'E' drive is an External USB HDD? Have you done a 'Search' of Drive 'E' for your media files? Are your music files MPS? Tried Search/MP3.....all drives? Does your E drive show in 'My Computer'? If it does, what is its Drive Letter? If the 'E' drive does not show in My Computer, then it is either not jumpered correctly,the USB or IDE cable's not connected ...or..out to lunch............or DO a search for MP3, .........nah..........does the E drive show in My Computer?....Has it got a Drive letter?? |
gza (13233) | ||
| 843681 | 2009-12-30 14:02:00 | ps: i suggest that you don't load anything to the Phantom of the op-E-ra-rah drive.unUSB or whatever ya E drive and google $M or simply M. Ya got YouTube/Download Shopping..........Lawdy miss clausey :help:......I'm outa hair Hmmmmm..............where's ya music gone? Dunno.............back later, gza |
gza (13233) | ||
| 843682 | 2009-12-30 19:14:00 | Looks like somebody was on the happy juice last night ;) Anyways, I had a similar issue with an old Maxtor Jade Basics drive. What type of external is it? The Maxtors are renown for it :( Seriously though try it on another machine, it *can* sometimes be the difference between life and death :-/ You can also try Piriforms Recuva, a free download, that may help :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 843683 | 2009-12-30 20:25:00 | Pays to read all the posts - looks like E is INSIDE the computer, NOT an external drive - Read post 8 THe unusual thing is that it is not a partioned drive but two (2) independant hard drives in the computer. One is a 80gb hard drive (C running all of my programme files etc the other is a 160 gb (E drive called "store" that holds all of my media files. But the suggestions made - copy the data to some other place like an external drive would be a good idea, other wise you may lose everything. Does the "moved music" actually Play ?? |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 843684 | 2009-12-30 21:10:00 | Happy juice is here again and not slungover. : ) I was wondering if perhaps the E drive had become Unformatted and/or unallocated space. This happened to me when I tried assigning a drive letter to one of four 50GB partitions on a 1TB external Seagate drive. The entire drive was 'wiped' and said that it was unformatted/unallocated. All of the data was still on the drive and it was recovered using GParted 4 to rebuild the partitions. GParted was recommended by members here at PF1. I had tried Piriform's Recuva but it wouldn't rebuild the partitions on the drive and couldn't access an 'invisible' drive. I was wondering if the E drive had somehow become 'deleted' and therefore will show as such in Disk Management. If so then all the lost files can be retrieved quite easily as long as nothing has been written to the E drive......how can it be? Seems like its thrown its lot in with the C drive and decamped. : ) |
gza (13233) | ||
| 843685 | 2009-12-30 21:24:00 | If the E drive has developed a few bad sectors in the wrong place - that will show as it is, unable to read no data etc - This is a guess, but I have read someplace Windows is meant to move data if it detects a sector failing - it "may" have decided to move the data"-- Only a guess though. I know chkdsk does this The first step is to run the CheckDisk utility (chkdsk from your command prompt). This will locate the bad sectors, and mark them as such. It will, if possible, move the data from the bad sectors to good ones. Quoted from here (www.ehow.com). |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 843686 | 2009-12-30 21:36:00 | Afterthoughts: All of the advice of other members is good stuff I'd say, perhaps removing the E drive and trying in another machine would be good step, as perhaps doing a System Restore might bring it all back. Worth a try I reckon, its the easiest option for starters. Strange how the C drive has swollen to 240GB.....hmmmmm |
gza (13233) | ||
| 843687 | 2009-12-30 21:45:00 | Its almost as if some sort of RAID 0 was created (disks join together to make one large disk) If there has been failed sectors, system restore wont do any good. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 843688 | 2009-12-30 21:50:00 | Wonder what a live Linux would see? | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 843689 | 2009-12-30 22:37:00 | This morning when surfing a windows pop up kept coming up in the system tray stating "Windows cannot read E:$M this file may be corrupt (blah blah blah). I know for a fact that I have no such file name in my E: drive. Actually, you do. Files such as $mft, $logfile, $bitmap, $directory - they are NTFS metadata files etc. They cannot be seen by normal means. $MFT The Master File Table. The data attribute contains the MFT entries, and the bitmap attribute records which entries are in use. $LogFile The volume log file that records changes to the volume structure. If these files are corrupted, you can appear to lose data, even though it is still there. If you run a file recovery program like Filescavenger or GetDataBack you should be able to recover all your music. However, do NOT write the drive before you do this. Disconnect it until you get hold of such a program. Then once you recover, you need to work out how this was corrupted to begin with.. |
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