How to Fix and Restore Zero Byte Files in Windows|Recover Files of 0 Bytes

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Files become 0 byte and cannot be opened? How to restore these 0 byte files? How to get access to these files? This video will show you how to recover 0 byte files.
As we know that all files have some data which is in the bytes, kilobytes, or megabytes. What If files suddenly become 0 bytes! Don’t worry, because in this video we’re going to show you “How to Fix & Restore Zero Byte Files in Windows!” Before we get started, subscribe to our channel so you don’t miss out on any future videos.
📌Timestamp
00:00 Intro
00:54 Why Files becomes Zero Byte?
01:19 Method 1: Use CHKDSK Tool
01:39 Method 2: Copy again or Re-download Files
02:04 Method 3: Recover Zero Byte Files Using Anti-Virus Tools
02:56 Method 4: Restore Zero Byte Files by Changing the File Extension
03:42 Method 5: Recover Zero Byte Files using Tenorshare 4DDiG
👉Why Files becomes Zero Byte?
Before solutions let’s understand why Files becomes Zero Byte. Mainly files becomes zero byte due to Unexpected computer system crash, Interruption when resizing the hard drive partitions, interruption when transferring, downloading and uploading files, Improper system shutdown, File Corruption, Formation of bad sectors on the disk drive, Malicious software infection and virus attack. Now let’s move to the solutions.
👉Method 1: Use CHKDSK Tool
When files become zero bytes for the corrupted file system, you can try CHKDSK Command prompt to fix these errors. Here’s how to do that. Search CMD in search bar and run as administrator. Now type the following command. “CHKDSK H: /f /r /x and hit Enter. Then your zero byte files will be restored, and you can reuse it again.
👉Method 2: Copy again or Re-download Files
Another simple method is to Re-download or Copy your desired files again to restore zero byte files. Due to improper operation or incomplete copying or downloading files can be easily turned into zero bytes. The best possible way to resolve this issue is to Copy again or Redownload the files.
👉Method 3: Recover Zero Byte Files Using Anti-Virus Tools
Recently, your files becomes zero byte? For this cause your system might faced any virus. In such cases you can use any antivirus in your computer to run the scan and restore zero byte files. Sometimes the antivirus cannot detect the problems of 0 byte files and cannot completely recover 0 byte files so this solution is not advised. Now let’s move ahead to next solution.
👉Method 4: Restore Zero Byte Files by Changing the File Extension
Mostly, when saved files on storage devices turned into 0KB, the file extensions are saved as .000. You can try the below steps to change file extensions of your infected files. Open This PC and locate the drive partition where your files turned into 0KB, right-click on the drive, and choose “Properties”.
Navigate to “Tool” tab and select "Check now” and click ok to start. Once this process is completed then open the drive partition and hit on address field and type “FOUND.000” without quotes and press enter. Here’s it is, Save the file to a separate hard drive partition, change its name and file extension. After that simply, open and check the file content. This method is quite complicated and you want to recover zero byte files easily, then jump to last solution.
👉Method 5: Recover Zero Byte Files using Tenorshare 4DDiG
To effectively recover Zero byte files, we need to use a Professional data recovery tool. Tenorshare 4DDiG is a professional data recovery software that can be used to recover any lost, corrupted or deleted files such as documents, photos, videos, and more with simply 3 steps.
To recover zero byte files with 4DDiG, download and install the program on your system. Launch the software, select a location where your files turned into zero byte and click Start to proceed. Then select the target file type to scan. Now, 4DDiG will start scanning the drive to find files. After the scanning, you can choose files to preview and then click Recover to save them to a different partition.
Hopefully, you can able to restore zero byte files using above methods. To recover formatted or deleted photos, videos, documents, music and more files on your Windows and Mac based devices, we strongly recommend you to try Tenorshare 4DDiG. Subscribe to our channel if you want more useful tips. See you next time.
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A few of my files were 0 KB because of header errors. What are the solutions? WinHex? I tried the 4DDiG repair application; however, it didn't work for the corrupted files with header issues.

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