weird formatting on usb ?

[McCloud]

So I am using my USB stick for storing music and playing with Serato DJ - not sure if the software is related to the issue or not.

 

Basically, I imported my library within Serato DJ.. today I was gonna play and noticed, that the whole folder with music is missing. This is what it looks like. 

 

I can't open the files.. nothing. I've never seen something like this and I am quite shocked, as it had 300+ songs... which I didn't have backed up unfortunately. 

 

Is there a way to restore the original files ? Why did something like this happen ?

[MozyIT]

You may be able to use some data recovery software at a cost, but it does appear that some corruption has happened. 

Honestly not trying to be rude, I just deal with data loss for a living so, I cannot stress enough BACKUP BACKUP and Backup your back ups back ups. 

-Brett

[McCloud]

On 8/1/2016 at 6:21 PM, MozyIT said:

You may be able to use some data recovery software at a cost, but it does appear that some corruption has happened. 

Honestly not trying to be rude, I just deal with data loss for a living so, I cannot stress enough BACKUP BACKUP and Backup your back ups back ups. 

-Brett

alright, so I tired 3 recovery programs, with one I was actually able to find the files (all mp3 songs) - however they are broken down into pieces. 

Is it possible to somehow put them back together ? 

 

I've read about this a long time ago, but can't recall details or google anything useful right now..

[McCloud]

actually, I've noticed that it keep finding different mp3s but none of the ones I was looking for... also tried to recover the songs from my hard drive (where I had them before) and cannot find anything