No access to some hard drive folders, a bunch of GB taking up but none show up

[Lahti]

So im trying to access my hard drive wich i took from my old computer into my new one. Can get into the drive no problem and "all" things show up and i can access them without any problems. The thing is windows is saying there are like 10gb of photos and similar stuff wich sounds about right, but folders are empty when i look at them. Im trying to find all the photos i saved on that hard drive but they seem to be vanished. Im thinking those 10 gb of data are my photos but they seem hidden. I have tried to change permission and that was successfull for the most part, still getting some access denied on $windows.~BT and more. Im tryna understand all of this but it's making no sense. Bought an ssd from a guy and some of his stuff seemed to still be on it and ive also noticed me and his onedrive kindoff merging together wich i also thought was pretty wierd. Dont know if it has to do with my problem but worth throwing in there. Any help is welcome, if anyone needs more info il try to provide everything i can.

[Marko Del Vechio]

Hi,

 

Try opening CMD as admin

and doing following

chkdsk /f /r

 

Confirm with y

and reboot, than wait for it to finish, some issues might cause this and chkdsk could resolve it.

 

Also check-

Recycle bin space allocation

Indexing options and see if it expanded to crazy sizes,

 

Also you can Show hidden files and folders. - a must

 

Personaly i use application foldersize, and it lists all folder sizes whenever you open a folder so you can easily track which folders have a lot of data in them.

[Lahti]

22 hours ago, Marko Del Vechio said:

Hi,

 

Try opening CMD as admin

and doing following

chkdsk /f /r

 

Confirm with y

and reboot, than wait for it to finish, some issues might cause this and chkdsk could resolve it.

 

Also check-

Recycle bin space allocation

Indexing options and see if it expanded to crazy sizes,

 

Also you can Show hidden files and folders. - a must

 

Personaly i use application foldersize, and it lists all folder sizes whenever you open a folder so you can easily track which folders have a lot of data in them.

Cant access chkdsk /f /r, saying i dont have permission etc

[Lahti]

6 minutes ago, Lahti said:

Cant access chkdsk /f /r, saying i dont have permission etc

woops werent admin, wich drive does it scan tho? all of them?

[Marko Del Vechio]

usually a partition you are currently at, so C: by default id say

you can always change the partition by typing

D:

E:

 

In cmd and than running chkdsk

 

or using

chkdsk e: /f /r

 

 

[Lahti]

3 hours ago, Marko Del Vechio said:

usually a partition you are currently at, so C: by default id say

you can always change the partition by typing

D:

E:

 

In cmd and than running chkdsk

 

or using

chkdsk e: /f /r

 

 

Using Treesize i have located like 20gb in the old drives trashcan/bin or whatever you call it. Altough i cant access it, tried pressing restore etc but in no way can i open the pictures etc that are in it. is there a way to restore it so i can view the stuff in there? i mean they are taking up 20gb of space so it cant just be "empty" things right?