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Windows just Trashed 1TB data External HDD
Hi,
Just 12h after upgrade from Win8.1 to Win10 , and the Worst Case Disaster happened: I lost 1TB data on my external HDD in Seconds!
I lost my last Windows 8.1 System Image, so I can not go back!
I lost 3 VM´s, which contained very important Data and I have no means of recover them, is lost for ever.
Are that people at MS aware of the DAMAGE they are doing to people?!
Background:
I had a Vitual Machine Win 10 (VHD) on a External HDD.
I tried to make a System Image saving it to that external HDD and there was a error, File/Directory error.
I run Scan and Fix from explorer, It asked to run now or by the next reboot. I answer Now.
At once the HDD was showing in Explorer as it was Empty/Unformated. I checked it , there 0 bytes Free and 0 bytes available at Volume Name was Empty.
I run CHKDSK. There was a long list of corrections (see LOG Attachment). I was looking at it and it says: First NTFS was unreadable, was using Second NTFS. After data it says it was DELETING all the wrong information, at the end, I lost almost all Data there was in Drive.
So, CHKDSK was NOT correcting , was DELETING all data!!!!
After this I was trying to Explore Drive and there was a message "Access Denied".
The next step was "Take Ownership" .
I have been looking to the "Security Settings" of the Drive (see pictures) and I concluded that the main Problem was coming from that Security, some of the Default Settings were removed, the Ownership was assigned to a "Account Unkown".
Because of that stupid "Security and Ownership" I lost my precious Data!
I am pissed off!
Question:
- Is there a way to recover my Data? I do not believe in it.
- Is there the possibility that It can happen again? Can it be that it could happen to any Partition on my PC?
- It there a possibility to completely Disable all that "Security / Ownership" in System
It seems it is a recurrent problem, as I could read in this post Secondary Drives is locked, assessed denied. Unable to get permission. - Page 2 - Windows 10 Forums , almost from 1 Year ago.
Thank you
EDIT: I don´t think there was any Errors on HDD, Windows simply was getting "confused" with "users and Ownership".
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