Question Data hidden on Windows 10 USB stick

Jul 22, 2019
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Hi there,

I had a hard drive die, (SMART error). After restoring the system, I hooked up the old hard drive to try to recover a few files. I was able to boot the system on a Windows 10 USB boot stick, and from a command prompt I was able to copy a few files onto the USB stick. However, when I plugged the stick into a system running windows 10, the old files I copied onto the usb are nowhere to be seen. Where are the files? (USB stick is FAT32, shows no other partitions.)
 
Jul 22, 2019
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Didn't use any options. The command was roughly

xcopy "c:\somefiles" "x:\somefiles"

I verified they copied to x: then removed the old hard drive.