Yesterday chkdsk decided to run on my video storage drive and I wasn't quick enough to stop it. Files are now all scrambled. some play fine. Others don't play art all. Still more play fragments of various files that aren't what the filename is. This is the second time I lost a collection because chkdsk scrambled a drive, as it did it to my music video drive a couple years ago (and much of that I have been unable to replace). Is there a way to restore the master file table to what it was before the utility ran?
Please don't tell me the files were already corrupted. Many of them were in there for less than a day and they worked fine. Files I watched an hour before are now bits of other files. also, the harddrive is less than a year old and has never presented a problem. The previous time it happened it was a brand new drive. I do not believe there was actually anything wrong with the files.
The strange part is chkdsk only moves a few files and said free space marked as used was cleared, but it scrambled half the content of a 5tb drive. I spent at least 10 years getting all these files. I want them back the way they belong
Please don't tell me the files were already corrupted. Many of them were in there for less than a day and they worked fine. Files I watched an hour before are now bits of other files. also, the harddrive is less than a year old and has never presented a problem. The previous time it happened it was a brand new drive. I do not believe there was actually anything wrong with the files.
The strange part is chkdsk only moves a few files and said free space marked as used was cleared, but it scrambled half the content of a 5tb drive. I spent at least 10 years getting all these files. I want them back the way they belong