Poof! 2TB gone.....

Chaos_Theorist

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Jan 15, 2017
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So....I'm not very savvy on harddrive issues like this..... and I may have already done more damage than good... But here's what happened.

Yesterday I was in the process of uninstalling extra crap on my storage HDD, and while uninstalling a 46gb game, the process more-or-less froze. By this I mean everything was still responsive, but the bar didn't move for over an hour. So I ctrl+alt+deleted and force closed the uninstallation, since I couldn't think of another option.

Welp...apparently I f__ed up lol. The next thing I notice a half hour later when trying to start a game, is that my entire storage drive is now showing as empty. 2.91 free of 2.91. So in a shaky panic I quickly read some articles via google and try to recover using Recuva. Well...after running all night, it certainly FOUND 750,000 files. But it was 750,000 files in D:/. No folders.

So now I'm lost and feel like I did more harm than good.

Not gonna cry if I can't save it.....but any ideas?
 
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yeah you killed it good style... especially if you tried to recover onto the same disk... you only use recovre when you have a spare drive to write the data to or you will just over write the data your trying to recover.

your best bet is to delete the partition. create a new 1 and start over...
the drive isnt dead you just killed the data.
yeah you killed it good style... especially if you tried to recover onto the same disk... you only use recovre when you have a spare drive to write the data to or you will just over write the data your trying to recover.

your best bet is to delete the partition. create a new 1 and start over...
the drive isnt dead you just killed the data.
 
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