Fat32 External lost all data in single folder

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by jswilson, Jan 31, 2010.

  1. jswilson

    jswilson Private E-2

    Have a Buffalo 500 GB external USB drive that has about 20 folders on it with about 290 GB of data in them. One folder, Projects, has come up empty after a simple save to the drive of a Word doc. Upon reboot of Vista Business, the OS wants to run chkdsk and I said no, ran Recuva, and of the 570,000+ missing or deleted files it found, no Projects folder or files.
    I'm wondering if I let Vista do chkdsk if it will repair and I can then Recuva the files? or if there is a better solution here.
    Thank you for any suggestion or direction.
     
    jswilson, Jan 31, 2010
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  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    Had that issue before and yes I would run chkdsk on the drive as for some reason and USB drives can be susceptible to data errors at times.
     
    DavidGP, Jan 31, 2010
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