minesapint
Technical User
Hi all, I have just upgraded to a newer machine with extra bells and whistles and was in the process of copying over files from an external drive I had been using with the old puter. During the copy something happened which made the copy crash. 2 minutes and a restart later revealed the drive had lost 60gb of data. The drive was connected to the new machine via an IDE to USB adapter, I think this was part of the problem to be honest.
I have since run a file recovery program and determined the the files are still on the drive, they are simply lost. Can I restore the drive to its original state before the crash? It is possible to save most of the lost files onto a new drive with the file restorer programme but we are talking about 2000 files and I will have to determine the extension and title of each and everyone to get to the stage tha I was hoping to be at by now.
In short friends, is there a lazy way out of this hole that i'm in or is it time to bite the bullet and get checking.
BTW, I cannot perform a scandisc for some reason, it refuses to complete.
Regards, Chris
I have since run a file recovery program and determined the the files are still on the drive, they are simply lost. Can I restore the drive to its original state before the crash? It is possible to save most of the lost files onto a new drive with the file restorer programme but we are talking about 2000 files and I will have to determine the extension and title of each and everyone to get to the stage tha I was hoping to be at by now.
In short friends, is there a lazy way out of this hole that i'm in or is it time to bite the bullet and get checking.
BTW, I cannot perform a scandisc for some reason, it refuses to complete.
Regards, Chris
