Transfer Data to Windows 8 Hard Drive Problems

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This is quite frankly doing my head in.

I managed to recover 101gb of data from a faulty hard drive and sits on my bench computer.

I've got a brand new hard drive and done a full reinstall of Windows 8 using the original recovery discs (this is a HP Pavilion G6).

Everything functions absolutely fine.

I then take the drive out after shutting down and plug it in via sata to usb dock to my bench computer and copy over the data to the c:/ root to avoid permission problems by accessing the user directory. Something that i've done countless times before.

I've now copied the 101gb of data 3 times to the laptop. Sometimes it just doesn't show up at all on boot of the laptop, sometimes things are corrupt.

I've ran a chkdsk and everytime it finds errors in the file system and repairs them. However, not all files are accessible on the laptop but they are on the bench machine.

It's had me mind boggled for days, could it perhaps be something to do with how Windows 8 never actually shuts down fully so expects to resume at a certain place on the drive?
 
This is quite frankly doing my head in.

I managed to recover 101gb of data from a faulty hard drive and sits on my bench computer.

I've got a brand new hard drive and done a full reinstall of Windows 8 using the original recovery discs (this is a HP Pavilion G6).

Everything functions absolutely fine.

I then take the drive out after shutting down and plug it in via sata to usb dock to my bench computer and copy over the data to the c:/ root to avoid permission problems by accessing the user directory. Something that i've done countless times before.

I've now copied the 101gb of data 3 times to the laptop. Sometimes it just doesn't show up at all on boot of the laptop, sometimes things are corrupt.

I've ran a chkdsk and everytime it finds errors in the file system and repairs them. However, not all files are accessible on the laptop but they are on the bench machine.

It's had me mind boggled for days, could it perhaps be something to do with how Windows 8 never actually shuts down fully so expects to resume at a certain place on the drive?

I will venture a guess here and say that it is indeed probably related to Windows 8 "Fast Startup" or "Hybrid Shutdown" feature. See here for some background:

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/6320-fast-startup-turn-off-windows-8-a.html

Also, possibly contributing to the issue may be something related to the way in which Windows 8 implements the new NTFS Health Check model.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/09/redesigning-chkdsk-and-the-new-ntfs-health-model.aspx
 
Definitely nothing wrong with the transfer cable, I used it to do the recovery on the original drive which was 24 hours running getdataback for ntfs.

Also, all data is in tact on the laptop's hdd while connected to the bench computer.

As soon as it is plugged back in to the laptop and powered on it disappears but the free space has also dropped by 100gb.

No amount of file system repairs corrects this.

I had to do a full refresh for a 2nd time to get the correct free space to show.

I ended up networking the laptop with the bench machine and copying it that way, my bench machine is also Windows 8 and didn't want to risk losing the client's data.
 
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