pyromuffin
Technical User
Holy crap, I booted up my computer when i got home and my 40 gig Western Digital HD (its in 2 partitions, 10gb C: and 30 for D:, C: is my windows, D: is for games and other stuff) drive D: is practically empty! ok, this gets weird now. C: is perfectly intact, hasnt been altered a bit (pun not intended) every file and folder is in its place. Now yesterday which is before everything dissappeared, my D: was about 22 gb full and now it has about 6 gb full. Everything but my spellforce (a game I recently installed) folder and image of the cd's is gone or altered in some way. these two folders are the only things left intact on drive D: . What else that was in D: after this "thing" happened was my FFXI folder, but seemingly random files/folders have been deleted out of it, and the game does not function anymore either. Aside from FFXI and Spellforce, everything else that was in my Drive D: is gone. BTW, both partitions are NTFS and im running Windows 2000 professional SP4, the hard drive is IDE.
Norton unerase doesnt pick up anything. Ive tried Stellar Phoenix disc recover or whatever its called and it finds the folder structure of my previously intact D: . At first i thought "YAY Ill get all my stuff back" but on closer inspection, That is all there is, Just folder structure, NO FILES. all the files within the folders are just GONE. Period. ive tried many unerase, Partition recovery, and forensic utilities, and NONE of them can pick up my lost files. I dont know whats going on here. The latest time i had checked my hard drive and i found that it was completely intact in all aspects was about 2 hours before i shut it down for the night. that leaves a small window for stuff to happen.
I first thought of a hacker attack, someone trojanned me, but i did scans and i find nothing, that also doesnt account for the seemingly randomness of the files deleted. (thousands of files, in random order are missing from my FFXI folder, would have taken many hours to have been done by hand) Virus scans show nothing as well. Then i thought of mechanical failure or some sort or magnetic intereference, but that doesnt account for C: being perfectly untouched. I really have no idea, or any kind of guess as to what happened, nothing seems to add up. I could really use help on this dire situation. i have done my best not to put anything on my D: drive so that nothing undeletable will get overwritten.
Please, I need some serious help or even a direction to go in. Thanks!
Norton unerase doesnt pick up anything. Ive tried Stellar Phoenix disc recover or whatever its called and it finds the folder structure of my previously intact D: . At first i thought "YAY Ill get all my stuff back" but on closer inspection, That is all there is, Just folder structure, NO FILES. all the files within the folders are just GONE. Period. ive tried many unerase, Partition recovery, and forensic utilities, and NONE of them can pick up my lost files. I dont know whats going on here. The latest time i had checked my hard drive and i found that it was completely intact in all aspects was about 2 hours before i shut it down for the night. that leaves a small window for stuff to happen.
I first thought of a hacker attack, someone trojanned me, but i did scans and i find nothing, that also doesnt account for the seemingly randomness of the files deleted. (thousands of files, in random order are missing from my FFXI folder, would have taken many hours to have been done by hand) Virus scans show nothing as well. Then i thought of mechanical failure or some sort or magnetic intereference, but that doesnt account for C: being perfectly untouched. I really have no idea, or any kind of guess as to what happened, nothing seems to add up. I could really use help on this dire situation. i have done my best not to put anything on my D: drive so that nothing undeletable will get overwritten.
Please, I need some serious help or even a direction to go in. Thanks!