Maurice news Fri, 29 Dec 2017 17:53:51 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 22:23:32 +0000, Diesel wrote:

didn't tell his linux machine he was done with the drive and just
pulled it.

How many more times do I have to state that that was not the
case?

Regards,

Alright. here's a simple test you can perform if it happens again to
you in the future. open a console, navigate to the folder that you
think Windows is pretending is empty. type dir /a and see what you
get. Unless file system corruption has taken place, or windows thinks
it has, regardless of file manager or attribute settings, you will
see the folder contents, regardless of file extension. Btw, even if
windows thinks some file corruption has occured, dir /a usually will
still show some stuff to you; but the filenames and/or filesizes
might be way off; further indicating a problem with the file system,
not the OS.

And as I said previously, just because linux sees something don't
assume it's all gravy. Linux I've learned has various 'cheats' it
will use to do it's best to retrieve that file and it's contents for
you, even if the storage medium and/or file system is partially
damaged/corrupt. It's so damn good at it infact, I routinely use a
linux box to perform data recovery these days. It's much more fault
tolerant due to the tricks it uses. I have external drive kits, that
I can attach ide/sata to and plugin to a usb port. So I can checkout
the drive without any security restrictions, permissions, etc,
getting in my way. Fantastic for exploring/accessing ntfs drives that
may/may not be damaged in some way. User permissions aren't
recognized on ntfs under linux, so a users 'private' folders (short
of using crypto) aren't so private anymore.




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