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Good day everyone, I need help. My files from the my PCs Internal Hard Disk (from drive D) have gone missing. If you're telling me that it is hidden, it is NOT. If you tell me it might have been placed somewhere, it is NOT. I've tried searching for it from all folders. I could say those files were GONE, surely. but what makes me wonder is that the folders where the files were hidden were there, but the files were not there. I have also seen how the files were mysteriously slowly disappearing until it stopped. I've tried using RECUVA, but unfortunately, the files I am looking for was not recovered.
BTW the OS i am using is Windows 8.1 SL 32-bit, 2.00 GB RAM. thanks for your help in advance.
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Very sorry to read of the trouble.
You've been quite methodical and others have mentioned some good techniques to consider the problem.
1. The description of the files sort of gradually disappearing though does have some quality of the situation in which a hacker gets in a system, encrypts the files and then in effect ransoms them- for a fee you get a key, but I think in that situation the files would still be listed, but be locked and require a password.
2. More likely: It may be that there was some kind of cascading disk failure after the spare sectors ran out and/ or, some kind of failure of the file structure so it can't see the addresses. This is called Lazy Drive or File Dropsy.
1 Are you saying that the folder names are still visible but are empty?
2. Are there any files that can be accessed in the same partition or drive?
3. What kind of drive and how old is it?
You can run a check for errors and bad sectors:
1. Open Windows Explorer
2. Right click on the D: volume
3. Click on Properties in the drop down menu: This panel wll also display Used space and Free space.Make a note of those quantities. If the Used space still has a positive value, you're still in the running.
4. Click on the Tools tab.
5.See "Error-checking"
6. Click on Check now and see what it says.
If the drive is pooesque, if it doesn't respond to recovery software it can be disassembled in a clean room and the platters mounted into anther drive and the files extracted. Not a free service, but easier than years of re-typing.
Let us know what you find out. I iimgine others more expert on drives will have more ideas.
I'm off to do a full backup right now!
Cheers,
BambiBoom
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