I’ve an exterior laborious disk in exFAT format (WD 500 GB WDBPCK5000ABK-03) for storing essential paperwork.
Final week I plugged it to my Macbook Professional to view some paperwork. After viewing, I didn’t eject it however to place my Macbook to sleep as an alternative.
Each time I wake my Macbook up, I get this “Disk Not Ejected Correctly” message. The sleep and get up cycle with the warning message occur for 4 instances, then I noticed 5 folders go lacking.
I do know one thing was fallacious, and I finished writing new information to this disk. I did the next issues
- Searched the lacking folders and filesin the
.Trashesfolder contained in the exterior HDD - Searched the lacking folders and information within the Trash Bin in my Macbook
- Plugged my exterior HDD to a Home windows laptop and search for hidden
folders and information - Searched the lacking folders within the
Recycling Binof my Home windows - Used Recuva to scan for deleted information on my exterior HDD utilizing Home windows
The folders and information are nowhere to be seen. However Recuva provides me some unusual outcomes.
These information belong to My Work/Studying materials
These information belong to My Work/Sheet Music
These information belong to My Work/Educating materials
Solely within the deep scanning mode do I discover the lacking three folders My Work/Educating materials, My Work/Studying materials, and My Work/Sheet Music. However all these three folders are proven as ? within the Recuva. Sadly there are 26,000 information like this, and 25,000 of them are unrecoverable since they’re “Overwritten with D:?” in line with Recuva.
What is that this ? in Recuva? Is it an indication that my HDD is dying?
I have not been writing something to my exterior HDD, why are there instantly so many deleted information? Can they even be recovered if I went to information restoration middle?
How positive whether it is a part of the issue, just lately, I purchased a USB-C to Micro-B to switch the unique USB 3.0 to Micro-B cable.
