21 Mar 17
I found a 16 gig flash drive, thumb drive, whatever you want to call it. It says it has 14 gigs of stuff. But when you open it it says empty folder. I copied it to desktop and it went really slow like it was pumping out gigs of data but the folder on the desktop also says empty folder even though 'properties' says there is 14 gigs there.
Any idea how to get into this drive? What would be missing for it to say empty folder but properties says there is 14 gigs there?
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21 Mar 17
Originally posted by sonhouse"A fatal error has occurred"
I found a 16 gig flash drive, thumb drive, whatever you want to call it. It says it has 14 gigs of stuff. But when you open it it says empty folder. I copied it to desktop and it went really slow like it was pumping out gigs of data but the folder on the desktop also says empty folder even though 'properties' says there is 14 gigs there.
Any idea how to ...[text shortened]... ve? What would be missing for it to say empty folder but properties says there is 14 gigs there?
Originally posted by sonhouse
I found a 16 gig flash drive, thumb drive, whatever you want to call it. It says it has 14 gigs of stuff. But when you open it it says empty folder. I copied it to desktop and it went really slow like it was pumping out gigs of data but the folder on the desktop also says empty folder even though 'properties' says there is 14 gigs there.
Any idea how to ...[text shortened]... ve? What would be missing for it to say empty folder but properties says there is 14 gigs there?
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21 Mar 17
Originally posted by sonhouseMaybe Seagate DiscWizard?
I found a 16 gig flash drive, thumb drive, whatever you want to call it. It says it has 14 gigs of stuff. But when you open it it says empty folder. I copied it to desktop and it went really slow like it was pumping out gigs of data but the folder on the desktop also says empty folder even though 'properties' says there is 14 gigs there.
Any idea how to ...[text shortened]... ve? What would be missing for it to say empty folder but properties says there is 14 gigs there?
21 Mar 17
Originally posted by moonbusNo, just an old drive I found in a drawer. It can't be TOO old since it is a 16 gig drive. I know there are many times that now available but I would not pay 150 bucks for a 16 when the standard was say 4 gigs. So I bought it within the past couple years.
There may be encrypted data on it. That would register a size but be unreadable w/o the key. Did it fall off the back of an FBI agent's truck recently?
21 Mar 17
Originally posted by FMFThanks for that. Worth a shot. I have some disk recovery software I forgot about, wasn't thinking of it like a hard drive. It seems there must be data on that drive because when I copied it it took a long time to copy. My assumption there is, if it was truly empty, it would have just done the job in a millisecond but it was more like 20 minutes futzing around loading.
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