I just deleted a 30 GB video on my external hard drive. I haven't used it for anything ells after that.
I can't find it. But I can find files that i delete yesterday.
Can anyone tell me what the problem is?
I just deleted a 30 GB video on my external hard drive. I haven't used it for anything ells after that.
I can't find it. But I can find files that i delete yesterday.
Can anyone tell me what the problem is?
There are several problems here.
If the file was deleted via the recycler then it might have been renamed, to $Rnnnnnn.ext.
If it was shift/del'd, then the record in the MFT might have been overwritten, common in recently created files.
Files over 4gb I size have their cluster addresses in the MFT record overwritten on deletion, so if the record were to be found then there would be no link to the data clusters.
A deep scan might find the file, but only the first extent. A file of this size may well be, or very likely is, fragmented.
The odds are not looking good.