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Cazan
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hey guys i need some help , today i was doing a clean install of win10 in a friends pc but he had some important files so i put his HDD in my pc and transfered the files... 10gb important stuff and ~250 gb of games and music. after i did that , i went on and did a clean install of win10 in his pc with the same HDD. then i put back the hdd in my pc and CUT+PASTE in his HDD ... all good until then... after this i put back the hdd back in his pc and it was all good... when he got home the Folder i created with the files and games was gone but the HDD in windows shows that the space is occupied but the files dont show up... programs and win10 are only using 21gb but the 279gb (his files) are missing ... i tried hidden files and searching but its now working ... is there any onther way to get the files ??? ? Atm i'm trying ntfs undelete recovery program

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4 minutes ago, kittyducky06 said:

i asume you looked in recycling bin both yours and his

 

yes my friend... i'm not that noob... it was a cut and paste... and if it was in the recycling bin it would show up in his user folder... but it doenst... 

 

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Just now, kittyducky06 said:

try the clone and did you let the drive sit in your system after the cope was complete or just turned off the second it was done

i only say this because i have had a transfer to a usb drive say it is done but just leave a bunch of halfcopyed data

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25 minutes ago, Cazan said:

no but i've put it back in my pc and the files dont show up. .. how can i clone it ? i never did that

 

Basically you need another another spare hard drive. It will have to be reformatted so it's recommended that it's empty or anything in that drive can be deleted. The target drive has to have the same or more space than the target (in this case your friend's not working drive). As far as cloning itself, there are plenty of free tools online that work. Also before you clone, have you checked that the data is not in any other drive partition? 

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Install TreeSize on the machine and see what that reports as far as drive space and file allocation.

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14 hours ago, Airdragonz said:

Basically you need another another spare hard drive. It will have to be reformatted so it's recommended that it's empty or anything in that drive can be deleted. The target drive has to have the same or more space than the target (in this case your friend's not working drive). As far as cloning itself, there are plenty of free tools online that work. Also before you clone, have you checked that the data is not in any other drive partition? 

Yes i did ..  i'm trying to clone it today , yesterday i was sick of it and gave up ... its cloning now... 

 

13 hours ago, GilmourD said:

Install TreeSize on the machine and see what that reports as far as drive space and file allocation.

I'll do that after i clone ... but you can check the pictures i posted in the original post. Windows says it has occuppied 300gb but only 21gb shows up .. the rest is the "missing" files 

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On 05/02/2018 at 11:11 PM, GilmourD said:

Install TreeSize on the machine and see what that reports as far as drive space and file allocation.

 

On 05/02/2018 at 9:58 PM, Airdragonz said:

Basically you need another another spare hard drive. It will have to be reformatted so it's recommended that it's empty or anything in that drive can be deleted. The target drive has to have the same or more space than the target (in this case your friend's not working drive). As far as cloning itself, there are plenty of free tools online that work. Also before you clone, have you checked that the data is not in any other drive partition? 

 

On 05/02/2018 at 9:42 PM, kittyducky06 said:

Technacaly it is estimated time of arrival

 

 

thx guys but i gave up as nothing worked... tried  various clone and recovery programs and none found the files i was looking for or the clones would fail... i formmated it as my friend said he could get back most or all of the important files 

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