Files corrupted when trasnferring from PC to external HDD

forgenz

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May 10, 2016
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Hi there
Spent hours editing my equestrian dressage photos on light room and transferred them onto a hard drive to take to work to upload to smugmug as its faster.
Cut 3GB of edited jpegs and pasted the to my WD 1TB hard drive. Files seemed to have transferred all right. and I opened the folder while it was plugged in and checked the files were there.
Unplugged the HDD and upon getting to work plugged the HDD in to my PC.
HDD boots up and the folder is there . It now says the file is corrupted and unreadable. Right clicking on properties , shows there is zero files inside the folder. This has never happened on this HDD before. Stupid me decided to cut the files from my laptop to free up space so I have no backups. I am an idiot for doing that.
Im am running a chkdisk at the moment to see if that will make a difference. I still have the RAW NEFS but jeez its 6hrs of re-editing.
Any more advice appreciated.
 
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Hi there forgenz,

That is really unpleasant. :(

In case the chkdsk doesn't help, my suggestion would be to run a data recovery software on both drives.
Check this thread out: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1644496/lost-data-recovery.html

If the data is not overwritten, there's a chance that the data would be recoverable.

Apart from that, usually, data corruption could be a result of unsafe ejection and/or failing drive.
This is why, I believe it will not hurt to check your WD drive health status. You can test it with WD's Data Lifeguard Diagnostic tool(both short and extended tests): http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=JYtepS

Hope this will help,
D_Know_WD :)
Hi there forgenz,

That is really unpleasant. :(

In case the chkdsk doesn't help, my suggestion would be to run a data recovery software on both drives.
Check this thread out: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1644496/lost-data-recovery.html

If the data is not overwritten, there's a chance that the data would be recoverable.

Apart from that, usually, data corruption could be a result of unsafe ejection and/or failing drive.
This is why, I believe it will not hurt to check your WD drive health status. You can test it with WD's Data Lifeguard Diagnostic tool(both short and extended tests): http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=JYtepS

Hope this will help,
D_Know_WD :)
 
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