Lost Movies in hard drive (external)

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lhadeenkar9 Posts 17 Registration date Sunday January 3, 2016 Status Member Last seen November 6, 2016 - Oct 19, 2016 at 01:37 AM
Ambucias Posts 47310 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 - Sep 24, 2017 at 05:29 PM
hi guys , i have a problem with my hard drive .. whenever i use it to connect in our TV and watch movie some of the movies gone and it shows a blank file with 0 bytes. How can i find a lost movies ? how to retrieve it? my movies is by folder and one bunch of movies that i love in that folder are all lost :( but the capacity/size of the drive is still the same.

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R2D2_WD Posts 3606 Registration date Monday September 1, 2014 Status Member Last seen February 20, 2017   155
Oct 19, 2016 at 03:03 AM
Hi lhadeenkar,

Does this problem appear with some part of the movies or with all of those you have watched recently? Please connect the drive to a Windows PC and confirm that there are no hidden files and folders from Folder Options. Another thing you should try is running Command Prompt and using the following command:
attrib -h -r -s /s /d g:\*.*

Replace the letter g with your hard drive’s drive letter.

If the files are still missing, download a data recovery tool and try to recover the most important files. Check the link below for some software suggestions:
https://ccm.net/downloads/tools/file-management/

Let me know if there is progress.
Hope this helps

Anderson5 Posts 3 Registration date Friday September 22, 2017 Status Member Last seen October 6, 2017
Sep 24, 2017 at 04:40 AM
Hello, lhadeenkar! Does the method provided by R2D2_WD help you solve the problem? What are the formats of the lost video files?
Ambucias Posts 47310 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 11,166
Sep 24, 2017 at 05:29 PM
R2D2_Wd works for Western Digital support.