Copying - true moving of files, or just addresses?
Firstly, I lost a lot of photos while manipulating partitions. There's no problems about the data. Just some photos copied to the 'new' machine that I've had all the problems with. I'll simply transfer them again. But, I'd love to know how they got lost?
Last paragraph is the real question, the rest just how it came about.
Determined to clean-install W7, and even more determined to have 100gig C drive plus two others, I fitted a second hard disc and attacked the main drive with the XP that I was now running on. Cleaned out C by deleting the partition and making a new one c 100gigs. Fine. But...
When W7 installed, I'd hoped to expand D into the space. Totally barred from creating a new primary drive cos the 100mb system file was counted it seems - and this barred me cos of the total count exceeding 4. (had to leave F for a while) LSS I shoved data about so that I finally got the drives I wanted. C D and E. However, it soon became apparent that a great deal of data was simply missing.
Often, when we move files from folder to folder, the data is not really moved- just the addresses reset. . . or so I gather. But when the data is going from one partition to another, I'd assumed that it was really rewritten, indeed the HD light was flickering fit to bust. If the data wasn't truly rewritten, then when I removed the partition to meld it into the other unoccupied space, the data would have been lost I assume.
Does the team think this is what happened? :