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It seems running data recovery software was not necessary in my situation - although it gave me a clearer understanding of what was going on. It showed the found.000 folder was "existing" vs "lost" or "deleted" which helped to point out the files were still on the drive (no need to recover files...

most of the files seem to be the full size and the preview option shows me the few I tested are still intact. I get from your posts that you believe all is lost and there's no way to get this data back but it seems the files exist (in their original form not just raw data). I'm also not certain...

So clearly there was some kind of corruption but for what ever reason chkdsk won't acknowledge it now. There is no mention of mtf corruption now. The data is still on the drive and is found by both chkdsk and the permissions scan. BUT I can't access or view it. What kind of recovery software...

When I run chkdsk it says: 7630867 MB total disk space. 6378467 MB in 94646 files. 28816 KB in 4308 indexes. 0 KB in bad sectors. 418195 KB in use by the system. 65536 KB occupied by the log file. 1282011516 KB available on disk. so chkdsk is even seeing that 6tb+ of...

I understand that an mft corruption is drive based. My concern with the windows update is the very curious fact that the error was thrown at the exact second (in the event viewer) as the update completed and there were no warnings or errors prior. The drive is external usb. There are no (and...

The mft curruption error I posted happened after the windows update installed but hours before I safely ejected the hard drive and power cycled it. While I did disable and then enable the drive after a few restarts so that I could safely remove it, This was hours after the mft curruption error...

I'm not sure I said I "breaked it" -That error happened when the windows update finished installing and after disabled/enabled the drive the error stopped popping up at windows start. The drive still shows all of the data is there in explorer - windows is just not showing or allowing me to set...

On Win11 after doing a windows update (1 security update installed) I restarted my computer to find my main external storage drive was not accessible and the icon was a white sheet of paper instead of the drive icon. I could not eject it at first - it said it was in use by something. After...

Thanks! yeah this case is in the running. I know someone near a microcenter so I'm trying to get one of those bundles - it'll save quite a bit. Unfortunately they're out of stock and no clue when they'll be getting them back.

only 1 screen is connected at a time... via vga... but right clicking does nothing so I can't get into any display settings. Even when I can right click in safe mode it won't open any display settings. The login screen does show up immediately.. it's once you're logged in that it suddenly goes...

They found some specs somewhere: I was close! 3.0ghz intel dual core 4gb ddr2

I do! just looked it up: Apex Computer Technology PC-389-C 10bay ATX Tower No Psu USB / Hd PC389C amazon link

Sadly I think they'd rather have the larger case than have more external components - and they save about $50 if they can reuse the drives they already have. Personally, I'd rather a spiffy new case with the external drives. If they need it that badly They can probably make due with their...

great question. I should replace "my computer" with a "family member's computer". As I'm trying to fix it for someone else and can't access windows properly I am unable to tell what exactly the system specs are. It was built over 10 years ago... I'm pretty sure it's something along the lines...

Yeah, tell me about it! The family member I'm trying to build this for is stuck using dual CD drives so it's a necessity. I've been having a hard time finding a decent case that supports those needs without spending way more. Oof.. yeah that microcenter bundle would save me at least $50 from...