files disappeared after copying

[Ldrago]

Guys
So yeah I went to a friends place with my internal Toshiba boot HDD then I connected my HDD to his PC and copied some movies worth 200GB and then I returned home and plugged my HDD to my PC and booted to my desktop and searched for the files that I copied but I couldn't find them in any of the partitions. So please help me to find them. Another thing files were copied I saw them when my HDD was connected to my friends PC.

 

[mbarnes86]

Hi

It Is likely you moved them instead of copying them

You could try undelete from recycle bin

But if not in recycle bin safest way of getting them back is to go round to your friend and COPY them back to your HDD.
(possibly over the local network or on to a USB HDD)


regards
Mike Barnes

 

[Ldrago]

no no I copied from my friends PC to my HDD but those files are not available in my HDD after I pluged it to my PC

 

[Ldrago]

and also there is 200GB space taken from my HDD

 

[mbarnes86]

Sorry l assumed you copied from your hdd not to your hdd

What folder did you copy the video's to?

What type of video eg what extension did files have
Mp3 mov etc
Using a search utility such as one from nirsoft and logged in as a admin user search c:\ For *.mp3. Or what ever extension
(Or c:\users if you know they are there)

Then wait for results
It is possible you dont have permision to access the files because they are owned by account used to copy them to your hdd but that should not make them invisible

Regards
Mike Barnes

 

[Ldrago]

no worries I ran chkdsk on the HDD and then found the missing files in the system folder named Found.000 so I claimed inherentance to this folder and copied them outside. Thanks for bothering to answer me.