I just lost 44 GB of data that I downloaded in the past two hours. My PC started to get laggy and it got stuck so I just shut it down believing that all will be well since the data has already been written to disk…
I just lost 44 GB of data that I downloaded in the past two hours. My PC started to get laggy and it got stuck so I just shut it down believing that all will be well since the data has already been written to disk…
My filesystem was NTFS
If you haven’t tried it already, you could run
chkdsk
to see if the filesystem needs repairing. You can do it from the command-line[1] or also through the drive properties > Tools > Check button.[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/chkdsk?tabs=event-viewer
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