Windows 10: Renamed my "Data" HDD drive, Ignored warning, lost "documents" folder

Hi "guys" i'm in the mire. Well n truly. Im running win 10 and its been updated to the Nov Update PRIOR to the latest problem. I have 1x SSD and normally 2 HDDs at 2TB. OS is on SSD and Data on HDD1
I can't at this moment supply more speck on my desk top comp. Other than to say, everything is no more than 3 years old. I had a couple of HDD 2TB which played up and i was working on them. I was getting back inside the comp to rearrange the SATA cables etc and swapping drives. I then renamed my drive letters to try to give some clarity to which of the 3 drives was which & to align the cables on the mother board. I ignored the warning when i renamed the only drive which was not part of the problem and before i had thought about it, hit the button. The drive showed a new letter but id lost a folder. I tried renaming it to no avail. This is THE FOLDER i least wanted to loose. I have tried renaming, and, renaming the drive back, i have also tried Reccuva, which did not disclose anything which looked like the lost files let alone the folder. I have looked at Stellar and EasUS in so far as doing scans but nothing has shown up to suggest it will be worth the cost of the prog/s . I am now considering "Easy Partition" with a view to recover the whole drive. I have not written to the drive and fully expect the files to be present if i can convince something to return the drive to a state where i can see a folder which could be my documents. Without the sys spec i know this is short of info but that info is mainly in the lost folder. If somebody wants specific info ill find it. Q..whats the chances of Easy Partition restoring the drive with the missing folder intact ? Cheers

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Documents folder renamed to Downloads

Last night I was copying Pictures and Documents to external drives as backups.

Now I see two Downloads folders and no documents folder. One downloads folder has the download icon, the other downloads folder has the documents icon, and all the documents. The change does not seem to affect Office and Quicken, they find their files without
a problem. Tried to rename it back to Documents, but it won't rename.

Suggestions?

 

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

 

Documents folder renamed to Downloads

Hi Schulte,

I swill be glad to help you with the issue you have with documents folder.

Did you try to rename both documents folders?

I suggest you to reset folders. Please follow the below steps:

1. Open File Explorer.

2. While in File Explorer, click/tap on the View tab, and click/tap on
Options in the ribbon.

3. Click on the tab that says View and click on Reset Defaults.

Please reply with the results, we are happy to help you further.

Thank you.