Missing copied files

[Mr. Cucumber]

I copied files from my laptop to windows 10 laptop to my pc hard drive (which also is running windows 10 ... I took the hard drive from the pc and connected it with a usb to sata converter... it copied smoothly... when I removed it and plugged it back in still the files were there...) but when I connected it back to my pc and booted into windows the files were gone... I even emptied out a drive formatted it... the files were simply not there... why is causing this?

[keskparane]

Probably user error.

 

Files usually don't just disappear and if they were copied to the drive then they should still be there. Double check the full original path you copied to.

 

If you really can't find them at the original path try checking any virus vaults if you have them.

[GoodBytes]

2 hours ago, Mr. Cucumber said:

I copied files from my laptop to windows 10 laptop to my pc hard drive (which also is running windows 10 ... I took the hard drive from the pc and connected it with a usb to sata converter... it copied smoothly... when I removed it and plugged it back in still the files were there...) but when I connected it back to my pc and booted into windows the files were gone... I even emptied out a drive formatted it... the files were simply not there... why is causing this?

Did you safe eject your drive on USB that you connected?

[homeap5]

As @GoodBytes said, you should safety remove device. Or at least wait a little longer for filesystem to update drive information.

[Mr. Cucumber]

The whole drive was empty.. my flash drive (i am kind of broke) is only taking about 1 gig of data in windows.. and little over 3 in linux.... but the hard drive was interesting... linux said it was only read only.... but windows it copied but it dissappeared... a reboot just showed that there is something taking up space... but ultimately I turned on view system protected files...then inside $RECYCLE.BIN ... I found my files... but why did this happen?

[homeap5]

Do you try to do what was recommended?

[Mr. Cucumber]

@homeap5

#update

I turned on view protected system files and it was inside $RECYCLE.BIN folder. 

But why? And my flash drive is behaving strangely the copying stops and reports an error with files larger than 2GB ( actually past 1.5GB it stops accepting any data) but when I try on debian little over 3 gig is copied ... but I found that the file is in system volume informations folder? what is happening ? I think my flash drive is dead but... what is this? I have never seen anything like this...