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Recover 'unseen' files from USB

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  • 25-10-2014 9:24am
    #1
    rizzodun
    Registered Users Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭


    I recently did a restore on Windows to a laptop, but before I did I copied all the users pictures and music onto a usb, total size about 30gb.

    Silly me never checked the USB properly after transferring the files but when coping them back two of the pictures folder and the music were 'empty', that's to say, the volume has 30gb of files, but cannot see about 15gb of it through the normal folders.

    Whats the best way to be able to recover these files so I won't lose them?

    If it helps I ran Testdisk, and got this:
    Partition table type (auto): None
    Drive G: - 67 GB / 62 GiB
    Partition table type: Intel

    Analyse Drive G: - 67 GB / 62 GiB - CHS 8158 255 63
    Geometry from i386 MBR: head=256 sector=63
    check_part_i386 1 type FF: no test
    check_part_i386 2 type FF: no test
    check_part_i386 3 type FF: no test
    check_part_i386 4 type FF: no test
    Current partition structure:
    1 * Xenix bad block 267349 89 4 534698 178 6 4294967295

    Warning: Bad starting head (CHS and LBA don't match)
    2 * Xenix bad block 267349 89 4 534698 178 6 4294967295

    Warning: Bad starting head (CHS and LBA don't match)
    3 * Xenix bad block 267349 89 4 534698 178 6 4294967295

    Warning: Bad starting head (CHS and LBA don't match)
    4 * Xenix bad block 267349 89 4 313426 126 42 740229375

    Warning: Bad starting head (CHS and LBA don't match)
    Only one partition must be bootable
    Space conflict between the following two partitions
    4 * Xenix bad block 267349 89 4 313426 126 42 740229375
    1 * Xenix bad block 267349 89 4 534698 178 6 4294967295


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    #2
    duckflyr
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭duckflyr


    Can try right click on the drive and select scan and fix if the option is there. No guarantees it will work, or make things worse. I have never seen it make things worse though.

    USBs seem to have a difficult time at times, having large amounts of data transferred to them. Maybe a live linux cd would see everything there. I use pclinux mini which usually automounts external drives.

    When you format USB drives it is usually better to format them with Fat32 filesystem as opposed to NTFS. It likely was Fat32 anyway though.

    Good luck


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