So I'm running Windows 8 on a ThinkPad and the motherboard fails. (I plan on replacing the motherboard but apparently this is a "known issue" by Lenovo and I am 225th in line to get a new board!! They lady in the warranty dept. told me not to hold my breath.) I buy a SSD enclosure and connect the old hard-drive via USB to my old Windows 7 PC to try and recover some files. At first glance everything appears to be there. I can browse folders and see files from the day my computer crashed, however, not all the folders and files (that I know are there) can be seen. I've searched this forum but the best answer I can find is to change my folder options to 'Show All Files' (which I have done, and only some additional files are visible), but I am still unable to view or transfer the files I need in my Documents directory. Please help? Very much appreciated.
INVISIBLE FILES?! Connected SDD to Win7 PC and many folders/files 'appear' to be missing?!? (NOT a 'Show hidden files' issue)
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shivababbli
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just try to change the attributes
go to cmd and type the following
attrib -h -r -s /s /d x:\*.*
where x is the drive letter
go to cmd and type the following
attrib -h -r -s /s /d x:\*.*
where x is the drive letter
Thank you shivababbli. I did as you suggested (on my F: drive using cmd line) but the files that I expected to see remain hidden. I'm looking for some Quibkbooks backup files in my Documents folder. Other folders and files are there, but not all of them.
TBRAND68
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Did you have the original hard drive partitioned? Sometimes when putting them in an external case, the other partitions won't show up "auto-magically" because there is no drive letter assigned to them in the "new" operating system. Just a thought. You could run an undelete program on the drive just to see if maybe the new os is confused and reading the FS incorrectly. Recuva is a good one.
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