Windows ScanDisk deleted my files - What do I do now?

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Ok so this is how the story goes...

I had my one 1TB [DRIVE A] drive plugged in, but wanted to insert my other 1TB [DRIVE B] drive, so I hibernated Windows XP, instead of shutting down.

I put the other 1TB drive [DRIVE B] in the removed one's place [DRIVE A].

So I boot up the pc, and left it unattended for a couple of seconds....

When I got back, I saw the scandisk at boot, deleting files and relinking.. It happened so fast and I could only see the words Orphaned, Deleting and relinking or something like that.

So I let the machine boot into Windows and checked out the drive.
windows changed the name of the volume [DRIVE B] to the name of the first drive [DRIVE A].

I had a look to see if all my files are still intact. All the folders are there, all the files... except some of the files had been corrupted and the filesize is now a couple of KB's, where that same file was like 3-4gigs.

What do I do now. I haven't touched the drive again. Do I run data recovery software? Is there a way to undo the scandisk?

:confused:
 
As above, try look for hidden files called dir0+. If you cant find them there, then try an unerase utility.
 
Unhide all Hidden, System folders, head over to your C:\ and check for directories by the name of "Found.000" etc... They could be in there.
 
Thanks for the replies guys...

I checked on the drive, found files with the .chk extension, but the files aren't the ones that were deleted :confused:

Enabled hidden system files view and couldn't find a "Found.000" folder in the C:\ drive.

I did not make backups of the data on the drive coz it's not important stuff.

I also tried running the Hiren Boot CD. Its got some data recovery programs on there, but I don't know how to use it :confused:

I can do a scan with most of the recovery tools, but I don't see the deleted files in any of the scan results.


Anyone know how to use the recovery tools on the Hiren Boot CD?

Thanks again for all the help
 
I'm gonna try doing a System Restore now. I doubt it will work as the hard drive is 3 days old
 
Well if the drive did a backup in those 3 days,you should be good to go :)
 
m3z said:
Thanks for the replies guys...

I checked on the drive, found files with the .chk extension, but the files aren't the ones that were deleted :confused:

Enabled hidden system files view and couldn't find a "Found.000" folder in the C:\ drive.

I did not make backups of the data on the drive coz it's not important stuff.

I also tried running the Hiren Boot CD. Its got some data recovery programs on there, but I don't know how to use it :confused:

I can do a scan with most of the recovery tools, but I don't see the deleted files in any of the scan results.


Anyone know how to use the recovery tools on the Hiren Boot CD?

Thanks again for all the help
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try a program called RECOVERMYFILES.
If you dont come right get tuneuputilities2009 and use the undelete program and search for the specific file names.....it might work.With hiren you must be very careful what you do.If you dont know something dont go haywire ask on the forum first or help from anyone else that uses these software everyday.
Maybe libz(librarian) can advise you on a linux way.:D
 
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