I faced a problem like the one described here. Basically, after connecting my NTFS external hard drive to my TV, two folders were lost, appearing only as a 0KB file.
I have been able to recover the information with a recovery tool. My problem now is that the "lost" files are still in the hard drive (so I have two copies of them, one I can't access and the other one in its right location -the retrieved files). The lost files are taking up a lot of space, so I´d like to remove them but I don´t know how. My normal approach would be to copy the files to another hard drive, format the problematic one and then copy the information to it again. However, I don´t have enough space in my other drives to do that.
Any tools or procedures to do that? I can use Windows and Linux tools.
Answer
I finally fixed the problem using GetDataBackSimple, after having no success with other tools like Recuva, ntfs-3g or Windows' chkdsk.
This tool will recover the files to a different unit, and place the found items in the originally-broken unit under a found.xxx directory, that can be deleted after the recovery.
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