USB key - renamed folders with special characters and unreadable
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Marine62 -
Marine62 -
Hello everyone,
My USB drive has the following problems:
- it is detected correctly;
- all folders have been replaced with names consisting of special characters, showing 0 KB in size, and sometimes dated 2018, 2021, or 2099;
- obviously, I cannot open them;
- I would like to recover the files, which are mainly PDFs.
- when I go to properties, it shows that 10 GB are used out of 16 GB
I followed a troubleshooting guide:
- renamed it to G: ;
- performed the "scan and repair" method: no errors were detected;
- I am not very knowledgeable, but I ran a chkdsk which yielded nothing;
- I uninstalled the driver by clicking "uninstall hardware";
- recovery software like Recuva does not allow me to recover my files.
The drive seems to be working fine: it is detected, lights up when commands are issued, I'm having a hard time understanding.
If anyone has any idea?
Thank you very much!
My USB drive has the following problems:
- it is detected correctly;
- all folders have been replaced with names consisting of special characters, showing 0 KB in size, and sometimes dated 2018, 2021, or 2099;
- obviously, I cannot open them;
- I would like to recover the files, which are mainly PDFs.
- when I go to properties, it shows that 10 GB are used out of 16 GB
I followed a troubleshooting guide:
- renamed it to G: ;
- performed the "scan and repair" method: no errors were detected;
- I am not very knowledgeable, but I ran a chkdsk which yielded nothing;
- I uninstalled the driver by clicking "uninstall hardware";
- recovery software like Recuva does not allow me to recover my files.
The drive seems to be working fine: it is detected, lights up when commands are issued, I'm having a hard time understanding.
If anyone has any idea?
Thank you very much!
4 answers
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Hello,
Hmm, that's not necessarily a good sign...
You can try this to attempt to recover your PDFs:
https://www.commentcamarche.net/telecharger/utilitaires/21721-testdisk-photorec/
Good luck ;)
See you later!
