Viewing files issue.

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Hi, dropped my laptop and it's kerput, I removed the hard drive and bought SATA cable to see if I could view the files on the internal drive.

Managed to view the drive on my laptop. When I right click on the drive it shows used space as 504GB with 78.5GB as free.

However, when I check each folder within the drive the total used space only totals around 150GB.

Any ideas why I can't find the other 350GB?

Cheers.
 
Your laptop hard drive will have an recovery partition for when you needed to restore it with F12. If you go into disk management you will see this
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k4stn said:
Your laptop hard drive will have an recovery partition for when you needed to restore it with F12. If you go into disk management you will see this
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Hi, so I've followed above and found the drive. I can right click and open, but it just takes me to the folder in Windows, but I still can find the files/folders that are 'missing' :thinking:

Can you clarify the F12 comment above?

Appreciate help :thumbs:

Cheers.
 
The F number is different on other makes of computer mine is F12 on my netbook.
You will not see any files as it's a ghost image of the hard drive and is only there to restore the OS back to factory settings but only for that one laptop...

Hope this helps you understand it a bit better
 
I'd say it is most likely disc corruption making the used space not visible.

If you already have a backup you could let checkdisk have a go at fixing it. If you are trying to save stuff that is not backed up then it would be safer to let a specialist file recovery program get the files off for you. That should be able to make sense of the dodgy areas with a bit of luck.

Can't suggest what program to use but there have been threads on data recovery in this section of the forum so you should be able to find some free and paid for suggestions.

I'd guess the F12 comment above is what you would do for repair in the original laptop. it would access a hidden partition and not use space on the visible drive.
 
k4stn said:
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Copy the 'linked image' box on the gallery page not the 'linked thumbnail' box.

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RobertP said:
I'd guess the F12 comment above is what you would do for repair in the original laptop. it would access a hidden partition and not use space on the visible drive.
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Yes that's what I should have said :bonk:
 
A good chance a lot of that missing space is for System Restore.

I doubt there is anything like that space needed for a factory rest.
 
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