OMG!!! NEEEED HELP :( Weird Problem

I'm gonna cry right now

My music folder worth 40+GB in one of my additional drives (it's not on the main harddrivep, on another "internal" harddrivep) DISSAPEARED

What I mean is this:
C:
G:
F:\Music

The F music folder is THERE- but the contents inside is GONE, when I right click properties it's got 0MB

What's weird is, it takes a LONG time to read that folder (when I click on it) - another thing, while it does say that it's 0MB, when I am checking out my drives, the space the music folder initially takes is gone (gone = someone the space the music folder is taking is still there): 57.6 out of 116GB remaining.

Another thing, I tried searching a song title that I know is in that folder, it doesn't show up. BUT at the same time the music I have in my playlist (in winamp) PLAYS FULLY- which is in the F:\Music folder plays!

For example, I pressed on Add File (the folder you see is in F:\Music), when I press on the icon "one level up" it takes a while then it comes up empty...

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/2...ed2copygp8.jpg


Any ideas what's going on or how to retrieve it?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I'd say your hard drive is dying. Back up what little data you still can recover now.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Get a hold of a copy of Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS and run a scan with that. See if it can the files on your HD, then use it to recover them.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Why don't you start by running XP's scandisk with all options checked?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Is it only that folder in your F drive? Or is the whole drive borked?

If the latter, just follow the directions I gave Kloak in this thread:
http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/he...d-failure.html

If the former, backup all the data you can on the drive(like Arainach says), and THEN follow the directions I give in that thread.
You can really use any file recovery program for that; like the one I list in that thread, or the one Sir VG suggests.

Finally, after you get all of your data off the drive, do the following.

Unmount and remove your hard drive.
Go to the top of a tall building.
Drop.
Repeat until satisfaction has been achieved.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Oh! I had that, or something close enough, happen to me once. When I ran scandisk, it promptly deleted all info regarding the files I had on that partition. Then when I tried to use recovery software, the best I could do is get roughly a million files that were named 000000001 to whatever number the last one was. I just gave up.

I sincerely hope it's not your case, but if you ever see scandisk display something like "Deleting file node..." roughly a million times, then you're probably screwed.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

It's just one folder in the partition that's missing, Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS DID find the music folder with all the music there... hmm but it says the size is 0 MB (which sucks)... I tried a recovery but I have to buy the full version which I don't have yet

Anywayz, so while I try again with Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS, how do I recover with windows or something?


@niki I'm GIRL!!!! OMG, everyone everywhere thinks I'm a guy... <.< I guess my "female" avy/sig mean nothing <.<

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by packrat

Unmount and remove your hard drive.
Go to the top of a tall building.
Drop.
Repeat until satisfaction has been achieved.

Maybe he could check if he's still got warranty for it before that ... I never had a HD failing that wasnt replaced, personaly.

And I had a bunch of HDs failing... ='(

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Oh. Yeah. That works too.
I'm just taking into consideration the appearance of frustration and possible anger that is expressed in the thread title.
Nothing helps relieve anger like destruction. >=D

And yes, your female avatar DOES mean nothing. Killerina Evilova is not a red-headed white anime chick. =P
Also, if you want, I can upload a cracked version of Stellar Phoenix for you to use. (of course you can also just get it for yourself if you are familiar with torrents)

Jam it back in, in the dark.

It'll be awesome if you could upload a cracked version >.<

I checked in demonoid- nothing and torrentspy has no seeders... didn't check mininova (since somehow I can never connect to their torrents) or piratebay

... though, what kinda guy would have a chick, with flowers, lipstick, "female" name and that kinda quote >.< But... bleh it has to be something about me that makes everyone online think I'm male <.<

How ya doing, buddy?

Here you go =)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/elisc5

Just make sure that you do not write the saved files to the same hard drive, or you very well might overwrite others. If you've done any messing with other data on the drive since you noticed this error as well, that might explain why the file sizes are "0."
Also, be sure to check EVERY part of the scan. If you see files for your collection, and just stop there, you might be picking up the wrong thing. There is a high probability that the scan will pick up multiple "files" of the same name, some with the correct size or no size at all ("0"). You of course want to save the ones that have content. If a file doesn't have any content, but has the name of your MP3, then just skip it, since its most assuredly a dummy.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Thanks for the file...

Now I haven't completed it... but I tried it today and tried to set up a recovery in another drive in the same partition (I have two partitions, F + G)- so I set up the recovery for drive G... but I stopped the program 10 minutes after it started 'cause my annoying brother wanted to play a game... anywayz so now <.<

When I click on the G Drive, it asks me to format it or not... not formatting it = can't access... so I did and everything in the G drive was erased in a matter of a few seconds (like 60GB of anime... but bleh)... arg- so I doubt one can recover this... right? Anywayz, so then I can't interrupt the process next time.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Which formatting did you use? If you used quick format, it will be easy for the program to recover the data. If you used the thorough format, then it will be harder for the program to recover the data. However, in neither case should you believe that your data is completely lost. In both situations, you can use the program to recover your data. BUT, if you have moved or added any new files or folders to your drive since you formatted... well that is just stupid.

In short, you can still recover the data from the drive, even though it was formatted. Just don't do anything else to the drive until after you have recovered the data that you want to save.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Just ran a scan for that drive... I see this:
http://img343.imageshack.us/img343/7706/untitledda3.jpg

Guessing it's gone then?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

That really sucks. It looks like Stellar Phoenix can't nab the data. It doesn't make sense that it can't do that though. This is really fucked up.

I'm going to upload Active@'s file recovery program(cracked) and see if that program can pick up your data. I have seen that program find files which had been lost through double formatting before, so I have high hopes with it here.

Download here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/mk0sp9

Just install the program, and run the "super scan" on your drives. It will take a couple hours, depending upon the size of the drives, so make sure that you won't have to interrupt the scan. Otherwise you will just have to start all over.

FELIPE NO