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So, on my office pc (win10) I set my default user docs to be in D:/ and not in C:/. I worked like that for 8 years storing my design files predominantly in 1 folder "Design". This year my D:/ drive failed and I lost 480 gb of data. Now I tried to restore my files from D:/ but none of the files in this ONE folder is found. My question is what happened with files in this case and where are they? I tried 5 different restoring programs but I cannot find any of the files searching in D:/. I also searched in C:/ and nothing. It seem a bit strange how every file in such a big folder can be erased forever.....

PS: Please don't get me started with why I did not have a backup of that drive....

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    What exactly do you mean by “the D: drive failed”? Is the D: partition on a different physical drive? How exactly did it fail? What steps did you take to mitigate the failure? How are you searching for your list files?
    – Daniel B
    Commented Aug 12, 2022 at 8:42
  • No backup? No sympathy.
    – Zac67
    Commented Aug 12, 2022 at 8:58
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    No recovery specialist is just going to run some app over your drive - they're going to take it apart & do it properly. Any 'specialist' who wrote data back to the drive you needed recovering has just killed your chances of recovery. You could investigate suing them for damages, but that's not going to get your data back now.
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Aug 12, 2022 at 9:21
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    Well, now you know their 'expertise' is non-existent. They just removed all chance of recovery by writing to the drive you want recovered. That is an absolute no-no.
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Aug 12, 2022 at 9:25
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    No. There's no provision for files to suddenly decide to all move to another physical drive. Even if the machine 'forgot' & started writing to C it wouldn't retrospectively move any previously-saved data. You're clutching at straws now.
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Aug 12, 2022 at 9:37

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