- Jul 30, 2015
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So, a while back my PC's hard drive went caput, and I had its data recovered and put on a cheap WD My Passport drive by an IT guy. When I got the hard drive and connected it to any computer, though, its files wouldn't open They were the correct sizes and extensions, but the computer-- any computer --would not recognize them. Pictures would just open to the generic Windows icon for photos, and text files were blank.
I contacted the IT guy and he said he had no problems with the files-- they were all healthy --and managed to send my my documents/music/pictures; indeed, they were all in tact. So the originating files were all fine, it just seems like something happened when he moved them from his server to the external drive.
Flash forward a couple months, and it turns out I need some files that weren't in my documents. I have the original batch on the external drive-- still inaccessible --and was wondering if anyone on here had any idea as to what might have happened to them. Are they fragmented? Formatted incorrectly? Encrypted somehow? Corrupted? Compressed? Any help whatsoever would be appreciated.
I contacted the IT guy and he said he had no problems with the files-- they were all healthy --and managed to send my my documents/music/pictures; indeed, they were all in tact. So the originating files were all fine, it just seems like something happened when he moved them from his server to the external drive.
Flash forward a couple months, and it turns out I need some files that weren't in my documents. I have the original batch on the external drive-- still inaccessible --and was wondering if anyone on here had any idea as to what might have happened to them. Are they fragmented? Formatted incorrectly? Encrypted somehow? Corrupted? Compressed? Any help whatsoever would be appreciated.
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