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Anonymous 11/09/15(Thu)19:47 No. 3728

Hello, /tek/. I come to you in hopes that you may help me figure out what happened to a rather large folder on my external HDD. You see, the thing just sort of vanished. It's not in any recycling bins anywhere, it hasn't been moved to any other locations on the disk, I ran a file recovery program, and it can't find anything... Worst of all, while I can't be sure, I think that the space the folder was taking up may be unused now, which would presumably imply that the folder is, in fact, simply completely gone. I intend to take it to a friend to use their computer so I can see if it could possibly just be my piece of shit old laptop that's the problem somehow, but I can't do that very well at 10:30 at night.

While I would like to recover the folder, I would settle for just knowing what the hell happened. My only clue is that it was making some beeping sounds earlier today, but I checked the S.M.A.R.T. system or whatever, which a friend told me to do, and it said the drive was "Healthy".

Allow me to close this by saying that I am not very good with computers, and to be honest, I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. Help would be greatly appreciated. If there's anything more you need to know about the drive, the problem, anything, just ask. Thank youin advance.

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Bunker!OFOzVPOG0g 11/09/15(Thu)23:12 No. 3732 If you did a system restore at some point if the file is younger than the point then that might erase the file if it was connected at the time. Also if you've hooked it up to an external network like say at a Univeristy some delete what they think is infringing material for some reason when scanned.

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Maxwell!d763ZBMy12 11/09/16(Fri)10:24 No. 3742 If it was a sufficiently large folder and it was accidentally trashed the contents wouldn't have been moved to the recycle bin but outright deleted, i.e. its location on the disk would be free to overwrite. Anyway if you've tried file recovery programs with no luck there's probably little chance the files are still on the drive in any form.

>>	Anonymous 11/09/20(Tue)17:16 No. 3756 Huh. It's back now, after my computer decided it needed to run a CHKDSK on the drive. Never mind. Sage because there is now no point in bumping my thread, as the problem has been solved.