jasonskanks Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 i turned on my external hard drive today and when i click on my computer it shows 15.4GB free of 465GB but when i click on it, it then says this folder is empty. any suggestions? do i need a file recovery program? i have never had this problem before. any help would be amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punkrudeboy Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 Do you have another computer, playstation, xbox etc to try it on? If so do you get the same result? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonskanks Posted May 31, 2011 Author Share Posted May 31, 2011 i was thinking of taking it to work tomorrow and trying it there. i have a ps3, do i just hook it up? now i sound like one of those old people, haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punkrudeboy Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 Just plug it in if you haver video/music files on there so if the hard drives working right it should find them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smailtronic Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 You might. If you can't get it to show elsewhere, try something like Get Data Back (http://www.runtime.org). Free download, and if it can find your files, you pay $80 for it. A few years back, I used it to recover some files, and it worked like a charm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hipsterasfolk Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 Well what are you trying to do w/ the HDD? was it an old OS from your previous machine or is just misc. files you are trying to swap? If you are swapping files, is it the same OS or different? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonskanks Posted May 31, 2011 Author Share Posted May 31, 2011 i just have random shit on this harddrive. movies, music, pictures. i have used this harddrive for about a year no problems. so i plugged it into works computer and everything seems to show up. any suggestions how to get them to show up on my computer at home? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 Try it again at home on a different USB port. Port might be fucked up, or the drive could be going and just happened to work at work. I'd recommand taking all the files off it if it works and try to run a hard drvie diagnostic tool (can usually be found on whatever brand the HDD is site). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melikecheese Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 You sure you didn't hide all your porn folders and the PC at home is not setup to display hidden files and folders?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonskanks Posted June 1, 2011 Author Share Posted June 1, 2011 You sure you didn't hide all your porn folders and the PC at home is not setup to display hidden files and folders?? haha. no porn files on my computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philviral Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 You didn't happen to drop it? Mine definitely broke when it fell off my desk a few weeks ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smailtronic Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 I'd recommand taking all the files off it if it works This. When drives start acting flaky, it's best to get a jump on replacing them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deafmx Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 You might. If you can't get it to show elsewhere, try something like Get Data Back (http://www.runtime.org). Free download, and if it can find your files, you pay $80 for it. A few years back, I used it to recover some files, and it worked like a charm. i might need to try this one my dead external. fell off my cpu too many times and hit the damn ground. i'm sure the platter is messed on it but worth a shot i guess. i took it out of the case and tried throwing it in my case too but it didn't fire up at all. i wish i knew how to recover my own hdd's. i need to get skills, then open that business. totally secure and confidential hdd/data recovery. i always worry about a place ratting me out for all the mp3's on my hdd so i haven't done any data recovery options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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