tribal-warrior
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I have a Seagate Elements 500GB external hard drive which Ive been using in conjunction with a pvr-ready set top box to record television content. This set top box creates a folder on the drive called ALIDVR where it records / stores the TS / PS files. Just now, I accidently mixed drives up and inserted the Seagate into another pvr-ready stb of another brand. This stb did not recognise the drive. However, when I removed the drive and plugged it into the laptop, all the files within the ALIDVR folder are missing. The folder is still there but it is empty.
There are other folders on this drive and they are not affected – they still have files in them (including video files.)
I tried two recovery programs - Ashampoo Undeleter and Recuva, but didn't have any success.
I really am confused about what happened to those missing files. They were never deleted. They just simply vanished. I don't know if connecting the drive to the wrong stb had anything to do with it or whether that was just a coincidence. With these pvr-ready stbs, there is an option to format the drive but I definitely didn't do that.
Does anybody have any theories as to what's going on and if there is any way of getting the files back?
There are other folders on this drive and they are not affected – they still have files in them (including video files.)
I tried two recovery programs - Ashampoo Undeleter and Recuva, but didn't have any success.
I really am confused about what happened to those missing files. They were never deleted. They just simply vanished. I don't know if connecting the drive to the wrong stb had anything to do with it or whether that was just a coincidence. With these pvr-ready stbs, there is an option to format the drive but I definitely didn't do that.
Does anybody have any theories as to what's going on and if there is any way of getting the files back?