Sort out a bunch of files under Found.000 and Found.001 directories

[jackaninny]

I have a friend who brought me a disk (1TB) that he says has volume label changed and many files disappeared. It is a SATA drive and it is mounted in a removable drive bay. It sounds like the volume label on the drive now matches the volume label of a drive that was previously inserted in that removable bay. I don't know if it was hot swapped or not but now in windows explorer I can see two directories called Found.000 and Found.001 and under those are a bunch of files some seem to be labeled correctly but both the folders are marked as Read only and Hidden.

Any idea what happened to this drive? Any way to reverse it or fix it? I seem to be able to copy files so I'm dumping those off to another drive right now but I'd like to make sure this doesn't happen again and I'd like to make sure I get all the files. Also what is the best way to reset the permissions on these folders so they are not hidden and can be freely read/copied/modified when I send the disk back to them?

PS. I did just find one directory that gave me an 'Access Denied' error when trying to copy it off to a new disk.

[Joep]

hello,

It sounds like he swapped the disk while Windows didn't flush it's caches yet, and file system transactions meant for disk A ended up being written to disk B. The presence of those folders could mean he ran Chkdsk. You can not undo this. You can only hope you can recover files.

Depending on what exactly happened iUndelete may do the trick. Just do a quick scan with the trial and see if the lost files show up. If so recover a few and see if they can be openen (you can do that with the trial version). If unsuccessful you can try iRecover.

WHATEVER YOU ATTEMPT THE DAMAGED DISK SHOULD NOT BE WRITTEN TO!