Hard drive problems - Immediate help needed (please)

unclebob123 · 19 Nov 2013 at 20:08

I'm sorry for posting this in the worg section but I really need some help with this problem ASAP.

I work for a television production company and I was in the process of copying across footage from the camera cards to two back up hard drives. I left the files copying and whilst I was away windows decided to do an update mid file transfer and restart the computer. Stupid of me to not turn this off I know.

Now when I right click on the hard drive properties, it shows that around 800Gb of space is being used, but hardly any of the files actually show up in explorer.

Is this likely to be a corruption of the file table? Any idea of the best solution to fix this? I have tried windows built in recovery tools to no avail.

To clarify the set up I was using was two external hard drive caddies each containing two hard drives in raid 0.

Thanks in advance

Dunks · 19 Nov 2013 at 20:10

If you were just copying the file, it should still be on the camera, I can't see how it got corrupted on the camera storage.

unclebob123 · 19 Nov 2013 at 20:14

No the camera cards are fine, but previous offloads that are not on the camera cards are on the hard drives.

Puppetmaster · 19 Nov 2013 at 20:23

download a program called windirstat. might help you locate whats taking up all the space.

( |-| |2 ][ $ · 19 Nov 2013 at 20:32

Unmount / mount the disks again. Also try a chk disk. (files system not surface).

If no luck there then copy the existing files somewhere else. Format your disks, copy the existing files back then copy the data from the camera cards.

unclebob123 · 19 Nov 2013 at 21:01

Puppetmaster said:
download a program called windirstat. might help you locate whats taking up all the space.

Ok thats great, using this program show all the files are there, in their correct locations.

Now any ideas how to restore this?

KIA · 19 Nov 2013 at 22:52

unclebob123 said:
Ok thats great, using this program show all the files are there, in their correct locations.

Now any ideas how to restore this?

Analyse the properties of the folders using windirstat and see if they have been hidden.

marc2003 · 19 Nov 2013 at 23:02

^it could well be that. i was in the library once and some stupid bint pulled my mp3 player out of the usb socket while it was busy and all my music folders ended up hidden. :rolleyes: