Hello,
I resorted to a forum post as a last resort after many hours of research and trial and error. I like to avoid clone threads at all costs, but I think you will find this scenario is different than most. Any advice would be much appreciated!
I am using a 3TB Seagate external NTFS drive to store media and other important files, but after I plugged it back into my PC after the refresh to stock 8.0, it was completely empty.
After much research, I think I have ruled out any permissions issues. I have reclaimed ownership to my username, and granted full permissions to my username, administrators, users, and the everyone principals/objects, and also I have applied ownership to all subfolders and files. Also, there are no hidden files other than recycle bin and volume information folders which showed up after using the attrib -a -s -h -r command in CMD. Access is granted on all fronts as far as I can tell.
The drive has no errors or bad sectors.
At first glance this seemed like the same issue I have read about in countless forums about restoring permissions. In those situations of permission loss, though, the individual's data was shown as accounted for in the disk properties (for example, 2.2 TB free of 2.45 TB), only the permissions would not allow access to a non owner (access denied). In my case, however, there is a peculiar difference, and I cannot find a forum with this specific issue:
My drive is 3TB
Main partition 2512 GB (says 2.45 TB free of 2.45 TB in My Computer)... ~ 70 GB difference?
One 32 GB recovery partition
One 250 GB partition I haven't filled yet
Total of about 2.7 - 2.8 TB
Missing roughly 210-270 GB of data (all my files).
There are no other partitions listed in disk management.
The difference in listed size does not account for the entirety of missing data.
So, when doing the math, it makes sense that my files wouldn't even be in this root directory because no data is written to this portion of the disk, which rules out permissions, folder view options, and basically any other setting in regards to this partition. It is also strange that My Computer and Disk Management list this partition at different sizes.
This made me wonder if there was some hidden partition somewhere, or why the missing data is no longer included in the same main partition it was originally.
Thinking my arithmetic was failing, I downloaded 3rd party data restoration software (getdataback.exe), and it found all my missing files which are there and recoverable. It sees this partition as LARGER than what my disk manager shows.
However, I do not want to restore the files back to the external with a chunk of 250+GB data "missing" and I don't have the space on my C: to store it temporarily while I format the drive. I even changed my drive letter hoping that would fix it. I would prefer to fix this issue without the use of 3rd party apps as both a learning experience as well as to retain the integrity of my entire disk space.
What is going on here? Am I overlooking something? Thanks in advance for your help... I have been at it for hours. /cry
I resorted to a forum post as a last resort after many hours of research and trial and error. I like to avoid clone threads at all costs, but I think you will find this scenario is different than most. Any advice would be much appreciated!
I am using a 3TB Seagate external NTFS drive to store media and other important files, but after I plugged it back into my PC after the refresh to stock 8.0, it was completely empty.
After much research, I think I have ruled out any permissions issues. I have reclaimed ownership to my username, and granted full permissions to my username, administrators, users, and the everyone principals/objects, and also I have applied ownership to all subfolders and files. Also, there are no hidden files other than recycle bin and volume information folders which showed up after using the attrib -a -s -h -r command in CMD. Access is granted on all fronts as far as I can tell.
The drive has no errors or bad sectors.
At first glance this seemed like the same issue I have read about in countless forums about restoring permissions. In those situations of permission loss, though, the individual's data was shown as accounted for in the disk properties (for example, 2.2 TB free of 2.45 TB), only the permissions would not allow access to a non owner (access denied). In my case, however, there is a peculiar difference, and I cannot find a forum with this specific issue:
My drive is 3TB
Main partition 2512 GB (says 2.45 TB free of 2.45 TB in My Computer)... ~ 70 GB difference?
One 32 GB recovery partition
One 250 GB partition I haven't filled yet
Total of about 2.7 - 2.8 TB
Missing roughly 210-270 GB of data (all my files).
There are no other partitions listed in disk management.
The difference in listed size does not account for the entirety of missing data.
So, when doing the math, it makes sense that my files wouldn't even be in this root directory because no data is written to this portion of the disk, which rules out permissions, folder view options, and basically any other setting in regards to this partition. It is also strange that My Computer and Disk Management list this partition at different sizes.
This made me wonder if there was some hidden partition somewhere, or why the missing data is no longer included in the same main partition it was originally.
Thinking my arithmetic was failing, I downloaded 3rd party data restoration software (getdataback.exe), and it found all my missing files which are there and recoverable. It sees this partition as LARGER than what my disk manager shows.
However, I do not want to restore the files back to the external with a chunk of 250+GB data "missing" and I don't have the space on my C: to store it temporarily while I format the drive. I even changed my drive letter hoping that would fix it. I would prefer to fix this issue without the use of 3rd party apps as both a learning experience as well as to retain the integrity of my entire disk space.
What is going on here? Am I overlooking something? Thanks in advance for your help... I have been at it for hours. /cry
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- OS
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