my passport 500mb all data gone

Dearing · Feb 10, 2015

So, I had a lot of data on my passport for editing videos and its all gone. The drive is acting like their is nothing on it. Any suggestions for getting my data back?

digitaldoc · Feb 10, 2015

Try the passport drive in another computer to see if it works, or is dead.

I suspect that you got the 500 GB model (not mb's).

Dearing · Feb 10, 2015

My bad, I'm so frustrated right now I can't think. Yeah 500gb and I already tried on another computer and it's empty. So much time of eidited videos on it.

digitaldoc · Feb 10, 2015

Than the drive is a no go. Look into warranty service. It is quite frustrating when these things break.

Dearing · Feb 10, 2015

Alright man thanks. Man this is so frustrating. Smash with a hammer like office space time! first external HD and last. Ive lost 80 hours of work.

nikoli707 · Feb 11, 2015

when you say data is gone what do you mean? you can open an elevated command prompt and run chkdsk to see if there are errors on the drive.

did you accidentally format the drive? if you did then everything is still there... a disk recovery program like recuva can "undelete" everything as long as you haven't tried to write new data onto the drive, in which case whatever sectors that have been overwritten will be near unrecoverable.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-data-recovery-software,review-1973.html

Dearing · Feb 17, 2015

nikoli707 :

I mean when i turned on my computer and looked in my drive it was empty. I didn't touch anything.

I just ran a chkdsk on the drive and nothing is wrong but it is showing no space is used.

I'm going to spend the 50$ on Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Home Edition v6, I hope you are right.

nikoli707 · Feb 17, 2015

Dearing :

stellar phoenix recovery software is popular and well known. but before you spend any money, there should be a free version of it that has limited functionality but it can at least scan your drive and tell you what it discovers. the free version will probably be able to recover a limited amount of data, either small files sizes or up to a 100mb or 1gb limit before it will want you to upgrade to the full featured version for a cost.

but again, unless the drive has physically failed, which chkdsk should have picked up, all the data is still there. only manually writing 0's to the entire drive using a program is a sure way to permanently delete everything that is on there. just dont write any new data to the drive as it will replace whatever was once there with new data.

Dearing · Feb 17, 2015

nikoli707 :

Dearing :

stellar phoenix recovery software is popular and well known. but before you spend any money, there should be a free version of it that has limited functionality but it can at least scan your drive and tell you what it discovers. the free version will probably be able to recover a limited amount of data, either small files sizes or up to a 100mb or 1gb limit before it will want you to upgrade to the full featured version for a cost.

but again, unless the drive has physically failed, which chkdsk should have picked up, all the data is still there. only manually writing 0's to the entire drive using a program is a sure way to permanently delete everything that is on there. just dont write any new data to the drive as it will replace whatever was once there with new data.

thanks dude, I seriously appreciate the help. I did buy the full version, and I am still waiting. Its been scanning the drive now for 5 hours. my fingers are crossed. But really you have been the biggest help. Gives me hope though when you say the chkdsk came back clean.

Dearing · Feb 17, 2015

Now my question is, if i recover my data or not. What would cause everything to disappear from my drive? fingers crossed

Dearing · Feb 18, 2015

nikoli707 :

Dearing :

stellar phoenix recovery software is popular and well known. but before you spend any money, there should be a free version of it that has limited functionality but it can at least scan your drive and tell you what it discovers. the free version will probably be able to recover a limited amount of data, either small files sizes or up to a 100mb or 1gb limit before it will want you to upgrade to the full featured version for a cost.

but again, unless the drive has physically failed, which chkdsk should have picked up, all the data is still there. only manually writing 0's to the entire drive using a program is a sure way to permanently delete everything that is on there. just dont write any new data to the drive as it will replace whatever was once there with new data.

OMFG DUDE I recovered it all!!!!!!! I made the mistake of giving someone else the best answer, but it is you that did, sorry man.. You saved my ass! thanks so much!!!!!

Maybe a mod can change best answer to you? I don't know

nikoli707 · Feb 18, 2015

im happy you have saved yourself.

dont worry about best answer... but i believe you can change it yourself.

digitaldoc · Feb 18, 2015

Best answer fixed.

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