Important shit with move to new pc 0kb - GoFuckYourself.com

nico-t · 07-10-2010, 06:31 AM

this is crappy. I used a sync tool which didnt quit when the new disk was full. So half of all my work was 0kb on the new disk. Which i didnt notice, i only saw that it didnt finish correctly.
So i cleaned some other stuff from the new disk leaving enough space for the sync job to finish normally.
So i synced everything again, but it was a bidirectional sync. So the sync tool saw that the 0kb files on the new disk were newer than the original files on the old disk, so it replaced all the original files with the new 0kb files!

I lost really alot of important stuff :/ goddamnit. Is there any way to retrieve these files? I searched in google but dont really know what search terms to use. One forum said you cant recover these files anymore, but thats 1 person on a forum.... there must be some tool??? i already did a system recovery but it already said it doesnt recover newest modified files..... so everything is still 0kb

Help!!!!

LongBG · 07-10-2010, 09:55 AM

Bump for you man, good luck, hope you get your files back!

Barefootsies · 07-10-2010, 10:00 AM

That sucks!

Hopefully Grouchy, or one of those other techie wizard dudes can hook you up!

signupdamnit · 07-10-2010, 12:01 PM

Quit using the original drive immediately. Any subsequent writes to that drive reduce the probability of recovery!

Mount it as a slave (IOW, don't boot from it) and then use recovery utilities such as http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec (works for more than just photos) to at least be able to recover some of it. Whatever tool you use make sure not to try to recover the files to the same drive as this will harm the recovery efforts (any writes to the original disk can mean possible loss of the chance of recovery).

If the data means a lot to you and you can't understand these instructions or figure out the program well enough, I would disconnect the drive and call in a pro.

Sad to say but it looks like you rebooted and tried stuff like system recovery already. This probably means you will lose a lot of data.

But the good news is that at least some of it should still be there.

grumpy · 07-10-2010, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Barefootsies

That sucks!

Hopefully Grouchy, or one of those other techie wizard dudes can hook you up!

wtf is with the two cents all the time

nico-t · 07-11-2010, 02:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by signupdamnit

Quit using the original drive immediately. Any subsequent writes to that drive reduce the probability of recovery!

Mount it as a slave (IOW, don't boot from it) and then use recovery utilities such as http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec (works for more than just photos) to at least be able to recover some of it. Whatever tool you use make sure not to try to recover the files to the same drive as this will harm the recovery efforts (any writes to the original disk can mean possible loss of the chance of recovery).

If the data means a lot to you and you can't understand these instructions or figure out the program well enough, I would disconnect the drive and call in a pro.

Sad to say but it looks like you rebooted and tried stuff like system recovery already. This probably means you will lose a lot of data.

But the good news is that at least some of it should still be there.

thanks! Checking photorec out, hope i can get the most important stuff back.

signupdamnit · 07-11-2010, 02:50 AM

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Originally Posted by nico-t

thanks! Checking photorec out, hope i can get the most important stuff back.

If it doesn't work when selecting NTFS for the filesystem I suggest trying to have it check the entire disk without regards to the file system. I think I read from the documentation that it might read the meta data. This might cause it to believe that a file really is 0k when it really isn't (I'm not sure exactly how it works or if it will be an issue). Trying it again using no filesystem type might help it ignore the file table which claims the file is of 0K size.

The menu can be a little difficult to figure out (not very intuitive) so you might want to test it out on something else first. Also this will likely take a long time. If you have a drive over a couple hundred gigs it might even take a full day (!). There's a way to have it only scan freespace which might help but I believe this requires selecting the partition type which may cause you to run into the problem above. But I'd try that first.

Good luck!

greg80 · 07-11-2010, 02:55 AM

that's so fucked up. That's why I do my backup manually.

Good luck to you.

07-10-2010, 06:31 AM	#1
nico-t emperor of my world Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: nethalands Posts: 29,903	Important shit with move to new pc 0kb this is crappy. I used a sync tool which didnt quit when the new disk was full. So half of all my work was 0kb on the new disk. Which i didnt notice, i only saw that it didnt finish correctly. So i cleaned some other stuff from the new disk leaving enough space for the sync job to finish normally. So i synced everything again, but it was a bidirectional sync. So the sync tool saw that the 0kb files on the new disk were newer than the original files on the old disk, so it replaced all the original files with the new 0kb files! I lost really alot of important stuff :/ goddamnit. Is there any way to retrieve these files? I searched in google but dont really know what search terms to use. One forum said you cant recover these files anymore, but thats 1 person on a forum.... there must be some tool??? i already did a system recovery but it already said it doesnt recover newest modified files..... so everything is still 0kb Help!!!!

07-10-2010, 09:55 AM	#2
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07-10-2010, 12:01 PM	#4
signupdamnit Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 6,697	Quit using the original drive immediately. Any subsequent writes to that drive reduce the probability of recovery! Mount it as a slave (IOW, don't boot from it) and then use recovery utilities such as http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec (works for more than just photos) to at least be able to recover some of it. Whatever tool you use make sure not to try to recover the files to the same drive as this will harm the recovery efforts (any writes to the original disk can mean possible loss of the chance of recovery). If the data means a lot to you and you can't understand these instructions or figure out the program well enough, I would disconnect the drive and call in a pro. Sad to say but it looks like you rebooted and tried stuff like system recovery already. This probably means you will lose a lot of data. But the good news is that at least some of it should still be there. Last edited by signupdamnit; 07-10-2010 at 12:08 PM..

07-11-2010, 02:55 AM	#8
greg80 Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,644	that's so fucked up. That's why I do my backup manually. Good luck to you. __________________ Say no to GoDaddy and high renewal prices! Go with NameSilo - FREE private whois for life, $8.99 regstrations and renewals. Free redirects, emails, great control panel and more! NameSilo rocks!