Files Become 0 Bytes - How to Restore Zero Byte Files in Windows?
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Date: 2022-03-21
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Cryptid's
I have 2 problem, as a youtube content creator, I keep all my files on various external hard drives. On a side note, none of my drives have been knocked or dropped as I know that can cause the drives to screw up. Two out of five of these drives are my issues. Oh and they are proper drives not SSD's, as I don't like them nor can afford them anyway.
Firstly I have a 2Tb drive that wasn't even a quarter full. It was working one night, and then the following day, nothing. When connected, the power light doesn't even come on. Neither windows explorer not disk management (where you do partitions etc ) are picking up the drive. Consequently, I cannot access anything on this drive.
Secondly, the other drive is a 500Gb drive. This whole drive does have power when connected and both windows explorer and disk management pick them up. However, when I try to open this drive, am told it is not accessible and access is denied. I tried the properties > tools > error checking option you stated, and that won't work because it says that windows cannot access the disk. In explorer it should that the whole drive is 0 bytes, inc total size, but in disk management, it does show me the drive is a 500Gb drive and the drive is healthy !! As for chkdsk, it showed me the following info...
Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems. No further action is required.
488383487 kb total disk size
385576100 kb in 248 indexes
0 kb in bad sectors
94167 kb is use by the system
65536 kb occupied by the log file
102711996 kb available on disk
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
122095871 total allocation units on disk
25677999 allocation units available on disk
Total duration: 2.95 seconds (2951 ms)
This leads me to believe that it is all recoverable, especially as there are no bad sectors. I should hope so anyway as none of my drives are over a year old.
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I have 2 problem, as a youtube content creator, I keep all my files on various external hard drives. On a side note, none of my drives have been knocked or dropped as I know that can cause the drives to screw up. Two out of five of these drives are my issues. Oh and they are proper drives not SSD's, as I don't like them nor can afford them anyway.
Firstly I have a 2Tb drive that wasn't even a quarter full. It was working one night, and then the following day, nothing. When connected, the power light doesn't even come on. Neither windows explorer not disk management (where you do partitions etc ) are picking up the drive. Consequently, I cannot access anything on this drive.
Secondly, the other drive is a 500Gb drive. This whole drive does have power when connected and both windows explorer and disk management pick them up. However, when I try to open this drive, am told it is not accessible and access is denied. I tried the properties > tools > error checking option you stated, and that won't work because it says that windows cannot access the disk. In explorer it should that the whole drive is 0 bytes, inc total size, but in disk management, it does show me the drive is a 500Gb drive and the drive is healthy !! As for chkdsk, it showed me the following info...
Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems. No further action is required.
488383487 kb total disk size
385576100 kb in 248 indexes
0 kb in bad sectors
94167 kb is use by the system
65536 kb occupied by the log file
102711996 kb available on disk
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
122095871 total allocation units on disk
25677999 allocation units available on disk
Total duration: 2.95 seconds (2951 ms)
This leads me to believe that it is all recoverable, especially as there are no bad sectors. I should hope so anyway as none of my drives are over a year old.
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Shane
Lost most of my sister's wedding videos after plugging the SD card from my a7iii into my iPad and a lot of stuff was unreadable and changed to zero bytes. After panicking for a bit I found this video and bought the software. Let a deep scan run overnight and thankfully everything was recovered, worth every penny. Can not put into words how fantastic these guys are. Thanks so much!!!
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Lost most of my sister's wedding videos after plugging the SD card from my a7iii into my iPad and a lot of stuff was unreadable and changed to zero bytes. After panicking for a bit I found this video and bought the software. Let a deep scan run overnight and thankfully everything was recovered, worth every penny. Can not put into words how fantastic these guys are. Thanks so much!!!
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Ale
So I have many videos that say 0 bytes and I can't seem to fix them with any program, downloaded or online. The problem is that those videos belonged to my old phone and only some of the videos were saved, but the rest show that error and they're not exactly in an SD card or in any drive, they're just in a folder and I don't know how to fix them without the typical process :(
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So I have many videos that say 0 bytes and I can't seem to fix them with any program, downloaded or online. The problem is that those videos belonged to my old phone and only some of the videos were saved, but the rest show that error and they're not exactly in an SD card or in any drive, they're just in a folder and I don't know how to fix them without the typical process :(
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Eli
I had this problem for a very long time now. For a couple of years now but still don't know how to do it because I'm afraid i cant get these files back. Can i get them back if I don't have access to the original devices/hardrives it was copied from? I NEED HELP!!!!!
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I had this problem for a very long time now. For a couple of years now but still don't know how to do it because I'm afraid i cant get these files back. Can i get them back if I don't have access to the original devices/hardrives it was copied from? I NEED HELP!!!!!
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