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A lot of files became 0kb

Tags: 0kb, files
I had just now my a friend of mine that big part of the stuff in my documents, including pictures, and important documents became 0kb.
when I open the file they are all empty.
Is there any thing that could be done.

I tried already to run several recovery programs, non of them worked.
There are no backups for the last 7 months.

1) How did this happen?

2) What could be done about it

Regards and many thanks.

P.S. I'm sorry to offer only 145 point, that is what is left in my account.



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01.03.2007 at 04:10PM PST, ID: 18240136
no problem about the 145..sometimes its not about the points

Anyway.... Did you get hit with a virus or something?
when you said 0kb do they still have the same name?
Have you tried the search feature? Perhaps your files have been moved somewhere else

Do a search for *.doc and see if any of your files show up.

Also have you tried copying the files to another pc and see if they show up correctly?

 
01.03.2007 at 04:55PM PST, ID: 18240333
Anyway.... Did you get hit with a virus or something?
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I used Mcafee, norton, zonealarm, and a few other portable scanners, and none of them found a virus

______________________________________________________________
when you said 0kb do they still have the same name?
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Yes the name is still there, the file is just empty.
but it's not all the files.

___________________________________________________________________
Have you tried the search feature? Perhaps your files have been moved somewhere else
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I tried that, it didn't help.
What did happen was that I have google desktop and that has in de indexed files, a cached version.
that version is very often not complete and misses all the layout.
plus some of the text is not readable.
is there a way to restore everyting in one go from the google indexing files.

________________________________________________
Do a search for *.doc and see if any of your files show up.
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Tried already but it didn't help
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Also have you tried copying the files to another pc and see if they show up correctly?
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Tried it already but it didn't help

Thanks RNBY

 
01.03.2007 at 09:32PM PST, ID: 18241146
try doing a checkdisk on your drive.
1. go to  my couputer.
2. right click your C drive,  go to properties.
3. Tools tab, and click error Checking. Check now, and check both boxes.
it will ask you to reboot, and it will verify your drive after.

Let us know
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01.04.2007 at 12:15AM PST, ID: 18241512

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first, BACKUP what data you can  ! Only then run  a diskscan for errors on the drive. If the driive has bad sectors, you could loose far more than you have now.
In any  case, after the above scenario, i would run a disk test to know the status of that drive (select the extended test)
picck any of these :  http://www.disk-utility.com/hard-disk-low-level-format.html
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01.04.2007 at 01:35AM PST, ID: 18241784
@nobus

The disk has no errors, and I wont be able to format it.
besides that is not a solution


@syedsimmeesaq
I did that already.
the drive is error free


RNBY
 
01.04.2007 at 01:56AM PST, ID: 18241871

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did you test your drive?
 
01.04.2007 at 01:58AM PST, ID: 18241875
@nobus

yes, the drive has no errors
 
01.04.2007 at 02:05AM PST, ID: 18241897

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with what? Did you use the Manufacturers disk test? orr only checkdisk ? this will not show your disk status
 
01.04.2007 at 02:07AM PST, ID: 18241903
I used proff tools to test it.
The drive contains no errors at all
I checked it more than ones with different applications

RNBY
 
01.04.2007 at 02:16AM PST, ID: 18241937

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Ok, if the disk is ok :
>>  1) How did this happen?   <<   probably you lost the file aloocation table, or part of it.
Are you sure he did not move those files to an external disk?

>>  2) What could be done about it  <<  the obvious answer is repair it, but it is not exactly easy
you can try one of these :
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Advanced_FAT_Repair
 http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Best/fat-repair-tool.html

 
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01.04.2007 at 02:28AM PST, ID: 18241982
@nobus

the drive is ntfs.
I AM SURE I DIDN'T MOVE THE FILES.
i TRIEd already a few repration tools
please don't give answers by guessing.
I can't have something go wrong here.
If you know a solution please tell me.
But don;t give answers if you are not even sure

RNBY
 
01.04.2007 at 02:58AM PST, ID: 18242074

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how can we be sure, thius forum is a guessing game sinc ewe do not see, or have access to the sytem to to test, or check things
 
01.04.2007 at 03:04AM PST, ID: 18242096
@nobus

true, I do that many times myself.
I was just starting to get frustrated.

I did already try the given solutions given.
I cannot think of another way of getting this done

RNBY
 
01.04.2007 at 03:38AM PST, ID: 18242206

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well, i hope there comes someone saying : change that key, and  poef ! everything is  as new !
i share your frustation, and if i find something more to the point, i'll post it.
 
01.04.2007 at 03:41AM PST, ID: 18242212

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did he install some software  before?
And if it is recent, a system restore can help you (maybe - if it is the system causing it)
 
01.04.2007 at 03:46AM PST, ID: 18242235
I spoke with a ms expert, who told me that system restore won't restore lost files, only system files.

As far as I know there wasn't any software installed.
the weird thing it's only in my documents.

RNBY
 
01.04.2007 at 04:00AM PST, ID: 18242289

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>>  who told me that system restore won't restore lost files, only system files.   <<  that is what i posted, read care fully : "a system restore can help you (maybe - if it is the system causing it)" so if a change of the sytem files caused iit, and only then, will it help.
I think you should :
make an image of this drive, copy it to a working PC, and test solutions  on that drive(so you keep your original disk available)
 
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01.04.2007 at 06:38AM PST, ID: 18243239