Lost folders and files

Thinking security and backup I installed two new HDD's in a RAID1
config.
A while after this installation, when I was moving important files to
the new disc array, I discovered that I had lost a complete folder with
its subfolders and files. Irony...
The first idea was that I had deleted it by mistake during the
copy/paste process to the new HDD's.
To find out if that was the case I ran a "Recover/Undelete files"
program which found about 300.000 deleted files from the original "C"
drive. But not a single trace of the missing files or folders.
I have also applied "show hidden files and folders", without any luck.
These are very important files, so I would very much like to find them
again.
Any ideas?


--
Bjoern

Don't completely understand your post, but you might try recovering from
Shadow copies if available. Go to the parent folder of the missing files,
right click and select properties, select previous versions. See if you
have any that include the missing folders/files.

"Bjoern" <> wrote in message
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>
> Thinking security and backup I installed two new HDD's in a RAID1
> config.
> A while after this installation, when I was moving important files to
> the new disc array, I discovered that I had lost a complete folder with
> its subfolders and files. Irony...
> The first idea was that I had deleted it by mistake during the
> copy/paste process to the new HDD's.
> To find out if that was the case I ran a "Recover/Undelete files"
> program which found about 300.000 deleted files from the original "C"
> drive. But not a single trace of the missing files or folders.
> I have also applied "show hidden files and folders", without any luck.
> These are very important files, so I would very much like to find them
> again.
> Any ideas?
>
>
> --
> Bjoern

John,
English is not my native language, I'm sorry. I'll try to explain a bit
more.
I have installed a new drive to which I have moved some files.
One folder, which I have not moved, is missing from the original C:
drive.
I have not intentionally moved or deleted it, so I am trying to find
out where it might be. There is no trace of it anywhere. A program that
is designed to find deleted files doesn't find anything, which is why I
am still thinking that I have not deleted it (by mistake).

I have tried your tip with shadow copies. I can't find out how to do
it. Maybe it's not possible because the missing folder was directly
under C: ? Is it possible to see previous versions of C: ?


--
Bjoern

I don't know of a way, but I would create a new folder with the same exact
name and see if that will get you to the shadow copies created with that
name, if any.

"Bjoern" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> John,
> English is not my native language, I'm sorry. I'll try to explain a bit
> more.
> I have installed a new drive to which I have moved some files.
> One folder, which I have not moved, is missing from the original C:
> drive.
> I have not intentionally moved or deleted it, so I am trying to find
> out where it might be. There is no trace of it anywhere. A program that
> is designed to find deleted files doesn't find anything, which is why I
> am still thinking that I have not deleted it (by mistake).
>
> I have tried your tip with shadow copies. I can't find out how to do
> it. Maybe it's not possible because the missing folder was directly
> under C: ? Is it possible to see previous versions of C: ?
>
>
> --
> Bjoern