Why could files disappear from a portable hard drive?

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Vlad Simonov2016-04-26 20:33:53

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Vlad Simonov, 2016-04-26 20:33:53

Hard disk (2.5" External HDD Silicon Power Armor A30 2tb) formatted in NTFS, connected to USB 3.0, copied a lot of files to it over the weekend (win 10 home PC), copying completed correctly checked all the files were in their places, turned off the computer, I turned it on in PND at work and found that everything that I copied in the evening was gone, at work the win 8.1 system, I looked at hidden system files through FAR, I didn’t find anything, the basket is also empty (suddenly), I brought it home and checked it on my home PC, it’s also empty, they disappeared only the files that were copied in the evening, I checked the hard bad sectors, there are no viruses, and the defragmentation is perfect, help me understand what happened.

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stukstuk, 2016-04-26
@stukstuk

It means that the copying process has not completed, there is no other explanation.

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Puma Thailand, 2016-04-26
@opium

How many gigs of data are missing?
How did you check?

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Ravil Shaimardanov, 2016-04-27
@ravil666

check the disk with chkdsk, file system failure is possible.

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Yuri Chudnovsky, 2016-04-27
@Frankenstine

It really can be a bug of a piece of iron (pocket). I have one, when used in Ubuntu approximately 14.04 and younger, when the file system was unmounted, the first couple of gigabytes (!) were corrupted by some dick, as a result of which not only the files were lost, but also the partition table with these same partitions. And with the later ones, nothing was lost only when using NTFS :)
To check that the files were really successfully written to an external drive, you need to disconnect this disk (safe disconnect) and connect it again, since without unmounting you will check with the cache in memory, and not with actual recorded data.
If the problem persists, ask the manufacturer about updating the brains of the piece of iron.

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Eugene Parasyuk, 2016-04-28
@comphome

if there was a vote, then I would vote for the glitch of the pocket.
I don’t see much point in using chkdsk, because if there was a file failure, then there would be a different situation

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Wincha, 2018-05-25
@Wincha

https://techtoday.in.ua/ru/news-ru/pri-kopirovanii...