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Eshaan
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Hey guys, my friend's Asus R55UQ laptop has a problem, recently after uninstalling a game, the entire drive got erased(like it was formatted), then when he was copying flies from his phone to his laptop, his phone's storage got erased and became blank. How to fix this please help.

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3 minutes ago, Eshaan said:

Hey guys, my friend's Asus R55UQ laptop has a problem, recently after uninstalling a game, the entire drive got erased(like it was formatted), then when he was copying flies from his phone to his laptop, his phone's storage got erased and became blank. How to fix this please help.

OK first, if the R55UQ got erased, how did he copy files from his phone. Also, can you still turn on the phone/ does the phone still work?

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Can you send a screen shot? The contents could just be hidden. 

 

Do this :

 

  1. Go to Command Prompt (CMD)
  2. Type the drive letter that is affected, example G: 
  3. Now type in attrib -s -h -r /s /d then enter, the blinking line will go down again.
  4. Go to your drive, and see if you can now see all of the hidden files now.
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17 minutes ago, bob51zhang said:

OK first, if the R55UQ got erased, how did he copy files from his phone. Also, can you still turn on the phone/ does the phone still work?

Could be a spare drive, and not C? 

 

Sounds like something sinister is going on. 

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31 minutes ago, bob51zhang said:

OK first, if the R55UQ got erased, how did he copy files from his phone. Also, can you still turn on the phone/ does the phone still work?

The drive where the game was installed on, not C, and yes his phone is working

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29 minutes ago, KeemoSabe said:

Can you send a screen shot? The contents could just be hidden. 

 

Do this :

 

  1. Go to Command Prompt (CMD)
  2. Type the drive letter that is affected, example G: 
  3. Now type in attrib -s -h -r /s /d then enter, the blinking line will go down again.
  4. Go to your drive, and see if you can now see all of the hidden files now.

The drive(not C) is empty

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1 minute ago, Eshaan said:

The drive(not C) is empty

So going to properties of that drive would show it's capacity as FREE SPACE? If you haven't tried this yet, right click on the drive and tick properties, let us know what you see on the pie graph. 

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7 minutes ago, KeemoSabe said:

So going to properties of that drive would show it's capacity as FREE SPACE? If you haven't tried this yet, right click on the drive and tick properties, let us know what you see on the pie graph. 

My friend already copied things again on that partition.

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