I have several 8TB external drives at home, was using Windows for years. Today I bought a MAC Mini and was trying to make the switch. Just for testing I connected all my drives onto MAC via powered USB Hub. Power should be enough bec this is how I was using it with Windows PC.
Anyway later on I had to connect external drives to PC again. Then I realised there is a huge "3TB free out of 8TB" label on the drive. The disk was almost full, I know it. In the root of the drive I see a folder called "Spotlight" , also some MAC related folders.
For the deleted files: Some are completely disappeared and some are showing as 0KB or 2MB, (normally they are much bigger)
I don't know what the hell happened but I can't see these files now, they are gone. I didn't even do anything. All I did was plugging it into mac and thats it. Now is there a way I can recover this data? Maybe the files are still there but its just my Windows showing the incorrect info (my windows also has issues)
should i just run recuva? or maybe i should check the files in mac now, maybe they will appear there.