actually, I think there were several mistakes made leading up to this problem. I swapped the hard drive while the laptop was in standby, which I thought was safe to do, then I turned on the drive before bringing the laptop out of standby, had I turned on the drive afterwards windows would have seen the drive missing coming out of standby and reinitialized the new one when I turned it back on. The big mistake was letting windows restart with the drive still on while in it's state of confusion. I believe the process of shutting down for the restart is where the directory information from the other drive was written to the replaced drive, thus messing up the hard drive's ability to initialize the contents on the drive. is there a way to have the drive rescan itself and rebuild the directory structure?
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