This is a vary weird type of hard drive crash. I had a power surge that fried my motherboard about 1 week ago, and it crashed the hard drive. I have a external SATA-2-USB that I can plug my SATA into to and see it on my working computer.
After the drive crashed, I plugged it into my external USB reader, and all the files were there in the places they needed to be. I copied over the office documents that I needed and when I tried to open them on my working computer all I got was a document full of garbage fonts. The folder on the crashed hard drive that contained the documents was not encrypted. but the folder was password protected using the windows folder password tool.
HERE IS WHERE IT GETS WEIRD
I plugged the hard drive into the USB reader today the computer see's the hard drive labeled F: as it did before. The computer is able to open the drive, but now all the files are gone. The computer tells me there is 111GB space 111GB free. There was no formatt performed, and read / write activity of any kind to the hard drive since it crashed. How could all the files remove themselves? I ran pcinspector and it recovered over 50,000 files in the "Lost" directory. when i try to boot from the hard drive, it says "ntlder is missing". I can fix that issue, but when I open the hard drive in my working computer, there are no folders to put an ntloader in.
When the hard drive is plugged into the USB reader, it spins fine, powers up fine, no clicking, no signs of abnormal behavior.
I have never seen anything like this.
Any help would be appreciated.
After the drive crashed, I plugged it into my external USB reader, and all the files were there in the places they needed to be. I copied over the office documents that I needed and when I tried to open them on my working computer all I got was a document full of garbage fonts. The folder on the crashed hard drive that contained the documents was not encrypted. but the folder was password protected using the windows folder password tool.
HERE IS WHERE IT GETS WEIRD
I plugged the hard drive into the USB reader today the computer see's the hard drive labeled F: as it did before. The computer is able to open the drive, but now all the files are gone. The computer tells me there is 111GB space 111GB free. There was no formatt performed, and read / write activity of any kind to the hard drive since it crashed. How could all the files remove themselves? I ran pcinspector and it recovered over 50,000 files in the "Lost" directory. when i try to boot from the hard drive, it says "ntlder is missing". I can fix that issue, but when I open the hard drive in my working computer, there are no folders to put an ntloader in.
When the hard drive is plugged into the USB reader, it spins fine, powers up fine, no clicking, no signs of abnormal behavior.
I have never seen anything like this.
Any help would be appreciated.
