I opened up an aging HDD and I swear, I saw a glimpse of a bunch of files.
Then, as the connection is flimsy (if I pull the cable upwards the drive loses connection), it disconnected almost immediately, possibly because I touched it or something, but when it reconnected showed nothing.
I've done an error check on the drive and see no problems. The connection is stable, yet I see no files at all.
Currently 96GB of 111 GB are free, although it's a 120 GB hard drive.
I'm questioning if I was seeing things when I first opened up the drive. I suspect there are actually files that I can't see, I am so certain I saw a bunch of files and folders listed the first second I opened it up and don't remember cleaning this drive out anyway.
There are no drive errors apparently, but the fact that about 17 GB are being used up out of the already 'reduced' 111 GB makes me suspect this.
I made a test text file and it exists fine. No other files show, though. No hidden files.
Is it possible there's an issue with this drive I'm not seeing or not really?
Then, as the connection is flimsy (if I pull the cable upwards the drive loses connection), it disconnected almost immediately, possibly because I touched it or something, but when it reconnected showed nothing.
I've done an error check on the drive and see no problems. The connection is stable, yet I see no files at all.
Currently 96GB of 111 GB are free, although it's a 120 GB hard drive.
I'm questioning if I was seeing things when I first opened up the drive. I suspect there are actually files that I can't see, I am so certain I saw a bunch of files and folders listed the first second I opened it up and don't remember cleaning this drive out anyway.
There are no drive errors apparently, but the fact that about 17 GB are being used up out of the already 'reduced' 111 GB makes me suspect this.
I made a test text file and it exists fine. No other files show, though. No hidden files.
Is it possible there's an issue with this drive I'm not seeing or not really?