Question Files going to 0 byte size ?

[Landstander]

Recently added a new WD Black 8TB to replace a failing Toshiba drive.

I'm starting to see files suddenly become 0 byes in size. At first I thought it was files that I moved to the drive that I backed up from the Toshiba, but these are files added since then.

CrystalDiskInfo doesn't show anything is amiss, and I do have the odd random crash on this system I've never been able to fix, but I've never had things do this before.

Suggestions?

 

[Deleted member 14196]

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[Ralston18]

AV Scan - yes.

I will add a couple of question:

How were the files "moved"? What procedure, process, app, tool, utility, etc. was used?

How were the source (Toshiba drive) and the target (WD Black drive) connected?

Perhaps the software app (if any - name ?) was buggy or corrupt in some manner.

Or poor design/documentation may lead the end user astray into some error of omission or commission.

For example: some freeware trial that goes through the motions but actually does very little or nothing.

Deliberately limited in use but that limiting is not made immediately apparent.

 

[Landstander]

I had split my files between two drives. I used standard windows copy at the time. (The Toshiba wasn't zeroing files, it showed it was failing in CrystalDisk and windows even had a pop up warning me that the drive was about to die.)

Once I had the new WD drive I used Acronis from WD to copy the bulk from the larger back up drive and then windows copy for the remaining files from the second drive.

The thing is, I have files that were added to my system that were never on the Toshiba drive that have gone to zero.
Yes, I did a virus scan (windows) and Malwarebytes scan. Syswin is nowhere to be found on my system either.
The issue doesn't seem to be on any other drive.

Bad drive cable? Bad drive?

 

[fzabkar]

Did CHKDSK run after the random crashes?

 

[Landstander]

Did CHKDSK run after the random crashes?

Nope, but did manually run it and nothing turned up. Currently re-running it with /r.

Edit: I should mention that I have no problems deleting these 0 byte files. I know that can be a thing if the tables are corrupt.

Edit 2: I don't have a clue.