So I just reinstalled Windows cause of a dumb virus, and I cant see the data on my SSD games drive. The data is still there, Windows sees it as the right amount of space remaining, however when I go to the drive it says nothing is there. Any ideas on how I get the data to show up? BTW, the Minecraft server was on this drive...
That's odd, I had a similar issue once but it eventually fixed itself. I'll have a dig around for some information and let you know if I come up with anything.
Remnants from the virus? Assuming you didn't reformat since you say data should still be on drive. Also, do notice you reinstalled Windows, SSD a separate drive?
I have a SSD operating system drive that was reformatted when the OS was installed, and a 2nd gaming SSD that was not reformatted during the reinstall of Windows. Windows sees the gaming drive as still having data on it in the My Computer area, however when I go into the drive it says there is nothing there. Its almost like the file system is not linked up to the registry, but Windows still sees that something is on there and just doesn't know what or how to access the data. I will be trying Delshin's idea and loading up Ubuntu live CD when I get home tonight. Or if someone thinks there is a distro that is much more likely to see the data properly and let me copy it to another drive then let me know. I just figured Ubuntu would be the easiest since it is supposed to have built in drivers for just about everything and be able to see Windows and Mac data well enough. Since I dont think it can write to an NTFS partition, I will be making a 250GB partition on a separate drive formatted as FAT32 that will hopefully work. I know Linux and Windows can read and write from that type of formatting, but IDK if I have any files larger than the FAT32 cap. If I do have a file that is larger than 4GB, I will probably try formatting the partition as EXT3 and then in Windows install an EXT3 program that will hopefully work well enough for my Windows to read the data and copy it somewhere that is Windows native.
see if you can run it thru a USB adapter and get the info that way ... I would try this USB adapter Acronis clone it to a bigger mechanical HD see if that reads in the computer if it does reformat the SSD and clone it back from mechanical HD that might work? Hopefully u have USB 3.0 so you dont sit for a day
This sounds like a no-brainer, but did you enable "show hidden files"? Some viruses simply hide your files so you can't see them.
Lol, that's the first thing I started thinking. I hate it when something is ridiculously simple. I imagin' your running win7 with SSDs, given I haven't looked into exactly how Win7 handles them differently then HDD I can't say I have any good advice not already seen here. Only thing additional I could think to at least check are the Security permissions under that drives properties.
fml. That got it. I honestly dont know how to try that sort of stuff as a diagnosis to a virus since I haven't actually had a virus since 2002 :/ All the ideas were really good though, the more technically stuff was what I thought was going to fix it but then it turned out to be something completely simple. And since I dont have any hidden files, I never would have thought to try that.
I may not have as much experience as some of the people here, but in my experience, people tend to try to overcomplicated things. <.< The process of elimination does wonders. My engineering teachers all through high school and college did always say when brainstorming how to solve a problem during the engineering process that no idea is too ludicrous to at least consider. Trust me, they're are ABSOLUTELY right. I just apply it to everything. lol. Edit: As a side note EniGmA1987, I love the part about IPv7 in your sig. I can't help but chuckle a little every time I read it. >.>