Hello,
I recently swapped out a HDD for an SSD on my home computer. To back up my files, I made a folder on the hard drive of my work computer (call it Work HDD) and dragged all the files (call them Important Files, ~200 GB) from my old hard drive (call it Home HDD) that I cared about to that folder, leaving only system and program files (call them Unimportant Files, ~400 GB). I then formatted the Home HDD to a single 1 TB NTFS partition using Disk Management, and dragged the files that I cared about from the Work HDD back to the Home HDD. I then deleted the files off of my Work HDD..
Installing the Home HDD back into my home computer, I saw that the Home HDD was still partitioned as it was before I put it into my work computer (1 500 GB partition, 500 GB unallocated [due to a failed drive cloning attempt to a smaller SSD]), and still had only the Unimportant Files. Thinking that maybe I hallucinated the previous workday, I brought the Home HDD back to the work computer and put it back in. Now it's showing me the single 1 TB NTFS partition, and the Properties of the drive tell me that 200 GB are used and the rest is free. However, in Explorer, the root directory of the drive is empty.
What's going on?
I recently swapped out a HDD for an SSD on my home computer. To back up my files, I made a folder on the hard drive of my work computer (call it Work HDD) and dragged all the files (call them Important Files, ~200 GB) from my old hard drive (call it Home HDD) that I cared about to that folder, leaving only system and program files (call them Unimportant Files, ~400 GB). I then formatted the Home HDD to a single 1 TB NTFS partition using Disk Management, and dragged the files that I cared about from the Work HDD back to the Home HDD. I then deleted the files off of my Work HDD..
Installing the Home HDD back into my home computer, I saw that the Home HDD was still partitioned as it was before I put it into my work computer (1 500 GB partition, 500 GB unallocated [due to a failed drive cloning attempt to a smaller SSD]), and still had only the Unimportant Files. Thinking that maybe I hallucinated the previous workday, I brought the Home HDD back to the work computer and put it back in. Now it's showing me the single 1 TB NTFS partition, and the Properties of the drive tell me that 200 GB are used and the rest is free. However, in Explorer, the root directory of the drive is empty.
What's going on?
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