Hi all,
My hard drive crashed recently (D Drive). It's currently in the freezer for a final attempt at salvaging data (bc I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars). The only other hope is that on my other backup harddrive (E: drive),Windows Backup has been performed on it. It currently shows 3.62gb free of 931gb, which makes me think that it saved a chunk of data from the D drive. However, whenever I try to access the files, it amounts to a copy of my C drive (which is my main drive), which is at most 24 gb of data. In other words, it doesn't look like my D drive was copied at all. But then what is taking up that other 931gb of data. I've already unhidden all hidden folders and looked into every folder I can and can't find any reason for all this space being taken up.
When Windows Backup runs, is it even supposed to backup other drives other than the C drive? This is my first time using it for restoration.
Thanks so much in advance. There's gigabytes of data on the D Drive I don't want to lose. A friend says data retrieval costs hundreds if not thousands of dollars to perform because they have to diddle with the actual drive itself.
Thanks so much and I'll update if the freezer thing works.
My hard drive crashed recently (D Drive). It's currently in the freezer for a final attempt at salvaging data (bc I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars). The only other hope is that on my other backup harddrive (E: drive),Windows Backup has been performed on it. It currently shows 3.62gb free of 931gb, which makes me think that it saved a chunk of data from the D drive. However, whenever I try to access the files, it amounts to a copy of my C drive (which is my main drive), which is at most 24 gb of data. In other words, it doesn't look like my D drive was copied at all. But then what is taking up that other 931gb of data. I've already unhidden all hidden folders and looked into every folder I can and can't find any reason for all this space being taken up.
When Windows Backup runs, is it even supposed to backup other drives other than the C drive? This is my first time using it for restoration.
Thanks so much in advance. There's gigabytes of data on the D Drive I don't want to lose. A friend says data retrieval costs hundreds if not thousands of dollars to perform because they have to diddle with the actual drive itself.
Thanks so much and I'll update if the freezer thing works.