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Directory structure intact, all files gone.

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resle

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Greetings,

I just met the disaster of a lifetime: 20 years of data lost in a second. Yes I've got backups, but only partial ones due to the sheer size of the data itself.

In a blink of an eye, something like 1 millions files vanished from the whole disk, but what's peculiar is that the directory structure is intact, perfect.

Technical data: Windows 7 X64, disk NTFS formatted (no gpt), no raid. The disk is not bootable, no OS, just a plain storage unit.

I suspect the files are still there and the MFT broke. Scandisk didn't report any problem (!) and so did chkdsk. I didn't take any other action.
 
thebeephaha said:
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That's exactly what I am using. It's been scanning for a (long) while and I while I wait it to finish I am reading something that makes me a bit uncomfortable:

Files Identified: about 183,000
MFT Entries: about 550,000

Does this mean that out of 550,000 effective files listed in the MFT, "only" 183,000 have been identified so far?
 
I had a drive go bad and lost my GPT table a while back in a 6tb RAID (JBOD) array. I'm not familiar with Data Back, I used Active File Recovery, http://www.file-recovery.net/, it was able to get my files to show up so I could restore them to an external drive. It took several days to do this - a couple days of scanning, and then a couple days of copying the "found" files off the drives onto several external USB drives. Fortunately, that was just a home file server, so I didn't need to use it while the recovery process proceeded. And my personal photos and MP3s were all backed up, so all that was at risk were, you know cough cough Linux ISOs cough cough .
 
If the "sheer size" of your data is just one disk, then you only need one other disk to back it up, hardly difficult.

I would suggest to not do any more write operation to the disk, without having made a bit by bit copy first.
 
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