Windows 10: lost files in pre loaded usb sound drive

Was having a problem updating sound files in a recording system and windows gave me a failure notice telling me to run a chkdsk check. I did and it said there were erors on the file so I chose fix. It removed about 16 Gb of a 238 GB drive. How do I get those back?

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Pre-loaded games won't uninstall

I'm not really into some of the games that were pre-loaded into my PC but when I try to bring up the games from the Start menu and click on 'uninstall' it takes me to the control panel, and I don't see the games listed there for me to uninstall. Suggestions, please? Thanks! ~P

 

Can't put ISO file on USB drive

Don't give up yet!
(i) If you used Option 1, did you get to select a USB stick in step 8? If so,
(ii) Did you reach step 11 - 'USB flash drive ready' ?

If so, you should be good to go - the USB drive should be bootable. You can check this by either examining it with file explorer, or attempting to boot your PC from it. In post 13 NAVYCLDR showed a screen shot of what the folder structure on the USB stick should look like - if it does, you should be done, but I would suggest you try to boot from it: assuming it boots up, don't proceed any further, unless you want to re-install or otherwise fix something.

I don't believe you ever explained why you wanted an install USB?

 

Lost data from hard drive, what to do now?

Well, I'm sorry to hear that it's a WD My Passport that failed on you, @tomhenry ! *Frown
I'd recommend you to try using a different USB cable with it and see if that will help your system to detect it without it disconnecting.
I'd also suggest you to go to Disk Management and see how the drive is listed there. It won't hurt to check up on the health and SMART status of the HDD by running the QUICK and EXTENDED tests from the WD's Data LifeGuard Diagnostics. Here's a link to the available software: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=11ZOpD

Give these troubleshooting steps a try and keep us posted with the results!
SuperSoph_WD