Windows 10: Music files have disappeared from my hard drive.

Two days ago I was simultaneously listening to music on the Zune software and unzipping files using winrar to add to my collection as I have done thousands of times before without a problem. Suddenly my music stopped playing and the Zune software gave me an error code that I didn't have a chance to write down. Only 86 or so songs were appearing in my collection (they were the ones I had just added) while the rest of my songs were missing. After doing a bit of looking around I found that everything had been moved to my recycle bin. I restored everything that was there but I am still missing about 4,000 or so songs. The artist folders where to songs should be still appear in my music folder but the files are nowhere to be found. Judging by the amount of space left on my hard drive I'd say that they are still there. Is there any way that I can recover my missing music? Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.

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Moving Music files from Windows 7 to Windows 10.

I am continually moving music files from my home computer which has Windows 7 onto a portable hard drive. When I plug my portable hard drive into my laptop which runs Windows 10 the music files have disappeared. But when I plug my portable hard drive back
into my Windows 7 home computer the files reappear. This isn't consistently happening but need a fix for the problem.

 

since the WIn 10 upgrade all of my music has disappeared. the folders are there and the sub folders for each album but no files.

Original title: LOST FILES

since the WIn 10 upgrade all of my music has disappeared. the folders are there and the sub folders for each album but no files. this was twenty years of music. I would go to a back up but the hard drive I used seems to have craped it self. do I have a
chance of recovery or are they gone for good.

 

You could try Recuva free or Easeus free or paid.

The latter offers instructions for Zune, which I don't have.

Have used both when away from company software.

 

Presumably you have a backup.... *Wink what will you do when your drive fails? It does happen...

(Check- e.g. Hard Disk Sentinel (trial)