This is warning to people.
I've had a 750gb wd USB2 external drive for some time at home, I recently bought a 1tb wd USB2 drive to accompany it that I will use at work
Basically what happen first. I shutdown my laptop using hibernate with drive USB drive A (750gb old drive) attached at home.
I then went to the office booted up the laptop with USB drive B (1tb new drive) attached to the same port, the pc started and went into windows a normal but in explorer it was showing details of Usb drive A. i.e the same directories, then about one minute later the computer gave me a message saying 'would you like to format the drive', strange, I already had. I checked in disk management and file system was reported as RAW!
Only about 5 gb on the new drive so I wasn't bothered to recover the stuff, so I formatted it with ntfs and thought it it goes wrong again i'm sending it back.
When I went home I shutdown using hibernate with the drive B attached, came home, plugged in drive A (my 750gb drive, 95% full) and noticed the same thing happening, in windows it showed details of Usb drive B (the one I used at work), gah!! I quickly rebooted the pc, and got back into windows and all looked ok, I then tried navigated the drive and got this message 'location not found' "Corrupt or unreadable".
I now realized what might be the problem, so I ran chkdsk rebooted and....... 100% free space, chkdsk removed everything on the drive!! 698 of 698 gb free, but all the directories still visable. Can I get this stuff back, a few posts online I've seen say the data is still there on the drive but just not properly inside a table.
Can you believe this though? surely this is a massive bug in windows if this is the case? I think what happened was windows 'thought' it had the old drive plugged in and when windows tries to access it it just think that the data is corrupt. perhaps a mft error that chkdsk royally screwed up.
edit - I'm running GetDataBack.For.NTFS as it got the best reviews %3 in so far and it's found 2700 files which sounds right as this drive had 100,000's on it, fingers crossed I can get the data back, or at least a good proportion of it, only 15 hours to go :/
I've had a 750gb wd USB2 external drive for some time at home, I recently bought a 1tb wd USB2 drive to accompany it that I will use at work
Basically what happen first. I shutdown my laptop using hibernate with drive USB drive A (750gb old drive) attached at home.
I then went to the office booted up the laptop with USB drive B (1tb new drive) attached to the same port, the pc started and went into windows a normal but in explorer it was showing details of Usb drive A. i.e the same directories, then about one minute later the computer gave me a message saying 'would you like to format the drive', strange, I already had. I checked in disk management and file system was reported as RAW!
Only about 5 gb on the new drive so I wasn't bothered to recover the stuff, so I formatted it with ntfs and thought it it goes wrong again i'm sending it back.
When I went home I shutdown using hibernate with the drive B attached, came home, plugged in drive A (my 750gb drive, 95% full) and noticed the same thing happening, in windows it showed details of Usb drive B (the one I used at work), gah!! I quickly rebooted the pc, and got back into windows and all looked ok, I then tried navigated the drive and got this message 'location not found' "Corrupt or unreadable".
I now realized what might be the problem, so I ran chkdsk rebooted and....... 100% free space, chkdsk removed everything on the drive!! 698 of 698 gb free, but all the directories still visable. Can I get this stuff back, a few posts online I've seen say the data is still there on the drive but just not properly inside a table.
Can you believe this though? surely this is a massive bug in windows if this is the case? I think what happened was windows 'thought' it had the old drive plugged in and when windows tries to access it it just think that the data is corrupt. perhaps a mft error that chkdsk royally screwed up.
edit - I'm running GetDataBack.For.NTFS as it got the best reviews %3 in so far and it's found 2700 files which sounds right as this drive had 100,000's on it, fingers crossed I can get the data back, or at least a good proportion of it, only 15 hours to go :/