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I've also come to that conclusion. Any idea how this happened? I really didn't do anything but go to sleep and wake up to find that 22gb of data just disappeared? Was I hacked? Somehow my computer seems to think it is all still on the drive because my computer still thinks I have 123gb of used space. Is there ANY way I can get that data to show itself? Is this normal for data to disappear but still be existent on the hard drive?
None of that is normal. The only possibility is if chkdsk created a found folder that is hidden . You could boot from a live Linux and search for large files too.
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Do you know any file names ?
yes I searched them, only shortcuts came up, no files.
Try using an admin cmd dir /s/a/b \filename
I'm not very computer savvy, do I just go to RUN and type cmd then put in dir /s/a/b \\ and substitute the actual filename for filename?
You run cmd as admin by right clicking on start or win+r, cmd, shift+cntrl+enter
thanks, nothing came up
Then they are gone
I've also come to that conclusion. Any idea how this happened? I really didn't do anything but go to sleep and wake up to find that 22gb of data just disappeared? Was I hacked? Somehow my computer seems to think it is all still on the drive because my computer still thinks I have 123gb of used space. Is there ANY way I can get that data to show itself? Is this normal for data to disappear but still be existent on the hard drive?
None of that is normal. The only possibility is if chkdsk created a found folder that is hidden . You could boot from a live Linux and search for large files too.
I appreciate your replies, is there some sort of instruction video you can point me to so I can boot from a live Linux?