The curious case of the magic folder

[w1z4rd]

So I copied a lot of media in Linux to my windows partition. Around about 50GB of data. I remember making a folder in my root windows parition called "media".

So I boot up into windows to play some HON. Then look for the folder. Its not there.. .in Microsoft or Windows, but the disk space is being used up!

No matter how I look, or where I look I cant find this magic folder. Ive tried searching for the individual files, but they dont come up in search results.

So now I have 50GB of used space that I dont know how to remove or access.

Anyone else ever encountered something similar?

 

[w1z4rd]

Ironically the the folder that is lost holds seasons 1-6 of lost :/

 

[d0b33]

Its not there.. .in Microsoft or Windows

probably the issue

 

[w1z4rd]

probably the issue

Or in linux

Check this:


root@laptop:/media# df

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 70787488 23762692 43428972 36% /
none 991408 308 991100 1% /dev
none 995624 3128 992496 1% /dev/shm
none 995624 196 995428 1% /var/run
none 995624 0 995624 0% /var/lock
none 995624 0 995624 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda1 102396 24712 77684 25% /media/System Reserved
/dev/sda2 81168772 67022240 14146532 83% /media/52405B31405B1AD5

root@laptop:/media# du -sh /media/52405B31405B1AD5/*

512 /media/52405B31405B1AD5/autoexec.bat
4.0K /media/52405B31405B1AD5/bootsqm.dat
512 /media/52405B31405B1AD5/config.sys
0 /media/52405B31405B1AD5/Documents and Settings
1.5G /media/52405B31405B1AD5/hiberfil.sys
529M /media/52405B31405B1AD5/MSOCache
2.0G /media/52405B31405B1AD5/pagefile.sys
0 /media/52405B31405B1AD5/PerfLogs
246M /media/52405B31405B1AD5/ProgramData
1.8G /media/52405B31405B1AD5/Program Files
444K /media/52405B31405B1AD5/Putty
142M /media/52405B31405B1AD5/Recovery
7.5K /media/52405B31405B1AD5/$Recycle.Bin
1.2G /media/52405B31405B1AD5/System Volume Information
2.4G /media/52405B31405B1AD5/Users
4.7G /media/52405B31405B1AD5/Windows
root@dave-laptop:/media#

 

[d0b33]

no clue, maybe shutdown and remount the drives cleanly.

 

[w1z4rd]

The drive mounts are fine. Ive also got no clue :/

 

[Tinuva]

Was this partition created in Windows or with mkfs.ntfs ?

It does look like there is something wrong with the file links in the filesystem. Your safest best is to backup everything on that partition back to another one, then reformat that partition. Chances are that way you will lose less information than fixing it with windows chkdsk.

At least back it up 1st in Linux before trying to fix/format that partition.

 

[w1z4rd]

Was this partition created in Windows or with mkfs.ntfs ?

It does look like there is something wrong with the file links in the filesystem. Your safest best is to backup everything on that partition back to another one, then reformat that partition. Chances are that way you will lose less information than fixing it with windows chkdsk.

At least back it up 1st in Linux before trying to fix/format that partition.

Its a partition setup by w7, then resized by ubuntu.

Ill probably be formating the partition. Since Ive lost the space and data.

 

[HavocXphere]

Saw something similar. Was messing w/ an ntfs part in ubuntu, booted to Win & half the folders were gone. /faints

Its just a glitch caused by win not liking anything to touch the ntfs part. It fixed itself after a reboot or remount or something...can't remember. Don't worry...worse case scenario is you have to do a recovery op to get the folder struct back...the data is not going anywhere.

 

[McGuywer]

Can you see the folder from Linux?

 

[w1z4rd]

Can you see the folder from Linux?

Nope, its gone there as well.

 

[Nod]

I assume an chckdsk (if you still have it in Win7) didn't help?
Tried any other NTFS recovery type software?

 

[MyWorld]

Have you made sure that the folder is not hidden?

ls -a /media/52405B31405B1AD5/

 

[wishblade]

Maybe a stupid question, but when you created the media folder, were you in Linux or Windows? And second stupid question for the day (the new one has just begun, so here goes), are you certain that you created a folder called media, and the folder was definately created on the root of the Windows mounted device?

And maybe 3rd stupid question - when you copied the contents from some folder to this media folder, did you use the terminal or copy/paste in the gui? If terminal, are you certain the command was entered correctly, and you didn't create one large file somewhere with all your data inserted into it.

Or maybe it's just best to ignore me... I think it's about time I went to bed...

 

[milomak]

Did you create a folder called /media/52405B31405B1AD5/media?