Lost over 19,000 music files! NEED HELP!

G

Guest

Alright, I had recently bought a 500gb External hardrive for my computer, as
it was low on disk space, and installed it. Everything was, and is still
working fine. What I did was backup my files first, which proved to be
ridiculous as it was really not proving to help the space. So I deleted the
files off the new hard drive, and decided to only add my music files, which
carried around 114gb of space. When I backed those music folders (I had
organized them all intricately by genre, author, etc. It took A LOT of
tedious work) into the new harddrive, I deleted the same folder with the
music files on my old harddrive, by virtue of saving space. I go to check the
space on my new hard drive, and I mistakenly take the space open for the
space closed; thus, I worry and I go to the options of my external harddrive,
which is 'Maxter', and click on a button which is meant to clean up every
file that is 'deleted on the old hard drive but is present in the new hard
drive'. I clicked to confirm the clean up of the files, and it said something
like: 'this process will clean up the drive etc.' and then it sayd 'OK' on
the buttom. By now I had realized that it would be imprudent to carry on with
the deletion, so I gladly closed the window 'without' clicking the ok button,
thinking everything would be fine.

Next thing that happened, my 19,000+ organized music files were GONE! I
tried system restore, and to my surprise, the 'empty' folders had returned,
but NO actual music files.

Any suggestions? I'm in desperate need of help, I really am, I am unsure of
what to do, any help would be much appreciated.

These files were extremely difficult to a) find b) organize c) took a lot of
time.
 
G

Guest

I'm not a computer maven, but the files might actually still be there, just
not indexed on the drive. Why don't you try software recovery sofware, such
as SystemMechanic 7 professional (free 30 day trial) go to www.iolo.com for
details. I'm sure there are other options out there, too.

Lastly, there are hardware recovery tools, and you could google that to find
vendors.

good luck.
 

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