Contents in folder suddenly missing after computer crash.

[Zckl]

So something very bad just happened. I'm cinematographer and on Sunday I filmed a video for a client. I put the videos on my second hard drive under the folder Y:\Videos\Church\Baptisms\Footage

(something important to note is that in my Y drive I have many other folders Y:\Movies Y:\Music etc.)

And last night I was editing the videos with Adobe Premier Pro and my computer (win8.1) just crashed, I'm pretty sure it was a blue screen but I can't remember what the error message said. So I took that as a sign that I should go to bed and finish it in the morning. So I wake up, turn my PC on go to my Y drive and open Y:\Videos and there is NOTHING there. I start freaking out and checking other folders on my Y drive and everything else is there Y:\Movies Y:\Music etc. The folder Videos is still there but everything in it is gone! Why!? Why didn't just Y:\Video\Church\Baptisms get deleted? Why did it have to be my whole Videos folder

Something else that you should note is that when I right click on my Y drive it says that I'm taking up 1.2TB of space, however when I open my Y drive and select all its contents it says that its only taking up 972GB's

Absolutely any kind of help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Aykiddo]

Here is a stretch, connect the HDD to your PC and go to computer. Right click on the drive and select "Restore Previous Version" . There may or may not be a recovery point in there.

Edit: Also you mentioned that the drive size isn't matching up. Try revealing hidden file and directories to see what else is in there. Otherwise you can use a software named "TreeSize" to see what is on the disk.

 

[Zckl]

Here is a stretch, connect the HDD to your PC and go to computer. Right click on the drive and select "Restore Previous Version" . There may or may not be a recovery point in there.

Edit: Also you mentioned that the drive size isn't matching up. Try revealing hidden file and directories to see what else is in there. Otherwise you can use a software named "TreeSize" to see what is on the disk.

Hey, thanks for your input. I tried I system restore but unfortunately I only had a save from my main drive so it didn't help with my Y drive. I told windows to show me hidden folders but that also gave no results. I then downloaded TreeSize and looked at my Y drive. TreeSize says I'm using 992GB, which is interesting because windows says im using 1.22TB, and when I select all the contents of my Y drive and so properties it says its 970GB

 

[Aykiddo]

Is there another PC you can connect Y: to?

 

[Zckl]

Is there another PC you can connect Y: to?

Yes,

 

[Aykiddo]

Is there another PC you can connect Y: to?

Yes,

See if the content appears on the other PC. Otherwise I would take the drive to a company that specializes in data recovery. Also, invest in a backup system.