File exists on drive, but contents doesn't show up hex editor
Posted: 25 Sep 2019 20:03
I have a hard drive which I'm trying to manually recover some data from using HxD. I opened the drive, and then saved the entire thing to a separate file (it's about 80GB, and the drive itself is old and slow). It's an old Windows install. In one of the folders, I find a .dat file which contains a specific string I'm looking for. I see this file when using Windows Explorer, and when I open it in HxD, I see the string. But when searching the entire 80GB file of the entire drive for that same string, it does not appear. What would cause this? I am using the same encoding when opening the file from Explorer, and when searching the saved drive.