I copied some 60gb worth of stuff (movies/dvd image files) onto my seagate 1.5tb external harddrive. i'm positive files were copied. bring it to a different computer, the files don't show up. and the disk space hasn't changed from before files are copied.

now when i bring it back onto the original computer, the disk space is correct, in that it accounted for the files i added, but the actual files are not found in the directory. its like they are hidden files. but I looked for hidden files... not there. where could it be?

Patriot.dlk

Sweden5462 Posts

February 14 2010 18:41 GMT

You probably need to re magnetize it. Get a big magnet and perform gentle strokes on the drive with it. It's very common for disks over 1 TB to have this condition and you fix it easy using this method

HazMat

United States17077 Posts

February 14 2010 18:47 GMT

On February 15 2010 03:41 Patriot.dlk wrote:
You probably need to re magnetize it. Get a big magnet and perform gentle strokes on the drive with it. It's very common for disks over 1 TB to have this condition and you fix it easy using this method

Really funny, copying 4chan.

meeple

Canada10211 Posts

February 14 2010 18:52 GMT

It might be a hard disk corruption... was the transfer interrupted?

thopol

Japan4560 Posts

February 14 2010 19:09 GMT

Funny on 4chan.
Dick on TL.

wo0py

Netherlands922 Posts

February 14 2010 19:12 GMT

There are programs that search your harddisk to find damaged parts. But on a 1tb drive it might take some while..

you 0, making backups 1

tarpman

Canada720 Posts

February 14 2010 19:28 GMT

Did you make sure to do the Safely Remove thing instead of just pulling the plug on the disk?

kuresuti

1393 Posts

February 14 2010 20:10 GMT

If you are on windows, try running the chkdsk utility through the command console.

Chuiu

3470 Posts

February 14 2010 20:16 GMT

I'm assuming you're using Windows since this is a very common problem on Windows. Before you unplug the hard drive and move it to another computer make sure you click on the 'safely remove hardware' button and eject the drive first that way. You should always do this for any type of removable storage medium, usb/flash cards/etc.

leetchaos

United States395 Posts

February 14 2010 21:39 GMT

#10

On February 15 2010 05:16 Chuiu wrote:
I'm assuming you're using Windows since this is a very common problem on Windows. Before you unplug the hard drive and move it to another computer make sure you click on the 'safely remove hardware' button and eject the drive first that way. You should always do this for any type of removable storage medium, usb/flash cards/etc.

Gotta say I've never seen anything bad happen because I didn't "safely" eject.

meeple

Canada10211 Posts

February 14 2010 21:58 GMT

#11

On February 15 2010 06:39 leetchaos wrote:

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Gotta say I've never seen anything bad happen because I didn't "safely" eject.

I think this is something that used to be a problem but not anymore. I had problems with XP early on in the flash disk era because the computers didn't know how to handle it if the flash drive was just yanked out. Nowadays I've never heard of anything going funny with it. Having said that if you pulled it out before the transfer was complete it could account for this... since it might create "ghost" files to make sure you have enough disk space on the drive.

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

February 14 2010 22:41 GMT

#12

It is possible that the computer is only reading drives in NTFS format or alternatively FAT32. I remember I had an external drive that I plugged into my friend mac computer and it couldn't see shit. I had to reformat (or at least a partition of it into the other format) so it could read it.