HELP!!! MY GIGS ARE MISSING!

[DuffmanOhYeah]

Ok, so I was ripping a dvd today (dvd decrypter), and I accidentally (apparently) checked the box that lets me join the ripped vobs. Now it seems that I over-ran the 4 gig limit for fat32, (Im running winXP pro by the way) and the space seems to have just disappeared. No files have been deleted, but I appear to be down by about 4 gigs?

ANyone know how to recover this?

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

 

[SmirnoffIsTasty]

Just try using partition magic.... It will prolly see the lost space as just unformatted, and then you can format it and add it to your active partition.

 

[DuffmanOhYeah]

Thanks for the advice..............but alas, I dont have it. If at all possible, Id like to figure out how to do it without forking over some dough. Does anyone know what happend? And if I do go that route, will I have to backup data? or can PT magic be run on a drive with data?

 

[Balt]

Stupid advice, as I'm sure you've tried it... but have you tried Scandisk yet? I've had it report to me before that a partition was reporting the incorrect amount of freespace (and it fixed it).

Also, are you positive 4gb of the file you were creating didn't pop up somewhere?

 

[DuffmanOhYeah]

Yeah, tried scandisk and Norton Disk Doctor............Nada. Also searched for any files that would be even CLOSE to that size and still coming up with a goose egg. Ill tell ya, I am truly baffled. Its like Windows wrote the space, but then decided not to give it a file name or extension leaving it wasted in a big black hole.

Im really stumped. :frown: ANyone else got some ideas?

 

[SmirnoffIsTasty]

<< Stupid advice, as I'm sure you've tried it... but have you tried Scandisk yet? I've had it report to me before that a partition was reporting the incorrect amount of freespace (and it fixed it).

Also, are you positive 4gb of the file you were creating didn't pop up somewhere? >>



Alright you bitch, why doesn't he just DL the prog and try it. I am quite confident it'd fix the problem.

 

[Bleep]

<< Alright you bitch, why doesn't he just DL the prog and try it. I am quite confident it'd fix the problem >>



What is up with you? You sound like a AOL reject.
Bleep

 

[Kraid2xd]

could be that the 4GB file got saved into a temp directory(I get that alot from CD images and badly ripped DVD's)... try checking there...

 

[WarCon]

When you looked for the files, did you use the Advanced Tab on Find Files and Folders and just search by anything over 100000 KB?

 

[Wamingo]

what about.... Hidden files? seems silly but it can happen to the best too...

 

[JustinLerner]

Ditto last two posts:

First enable all extension in Windows Explorer (so you can view them).
Uncheck the 'Hide extensions for known file types'
Uncheck the 'Hide protected operating system files'
Check the 'Show hidden files and folders'
Check 'Display the full path in the address bar'

Enable the address bar in Windows Explorer.
Search for any file created on the day this occurred and check for anything over say 10MB in file size. You should be able to find the corrupted file with or without unknown extension if you search the whole PC.